Posts from "Oisín Coghlan"
Oisín Coghlan has been Director of Friends of the Earth Ireland since 2005. Oisín heads the panel of representatives of the Environmental Pillar of Social Partnership and sits on the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). read more
Policy-making 21st century style: by tweet
Posted on May 29, 2009 by Oisín Coghlan
I didn't expect the public announcement that the Government will bring in climate legislation to come via Twitter but that's what happened just before lunchtime yesterday.
Yesterday was the culmination of a month long push to get the Government to provide long promised time for a new debate of the Climate Protection Bill in the Seanad. That's the bill Ivana Bacik drafted for us to launch our climate law campaign back in 2007 and introduced in the Seanad when she became a Trinity Senator.
Permanent link | Comments (0) | Categories: climatechange • climate law • Ivana Bacik • Eamon Ryan • Dan Boyle • Greens • Green Party
Greens flexing muscles not jumping ship
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Oisín Coghlan
I'm puzzled by the political analysis in the media since Dan Boyle called for a review of the Programme for Government last Friday. Every piece I've read concludes that the Greens are, in Stephen Collins words in today's Irish Times, "positioning themselves for a withdrawal from coalition in the not too distant future".
Permanent link | Comments (0) | Categories: climatechange • Greens • Green Party
Minister and I differ over Ireland's position on emissions cuts
Posted on December 01, 2008 by Oisín Coghlan
I expect to disagree with the Government from time to time on the positions they take on climate change policy. That's what campaigners and governments do after all.
I don't expect to disagree about what the Government's position actually is, but that's what's happened in advance of the EU ministers meeting this week.
You can see the report on today's RTE News online here.
Permanent link | Comments (0) | Categories: climatechange • EU • EU package •
UN Climate Talks start in Poland
Posted on December 01, 2008 by Oisín Coghlan
The latest round of UN climate talks start in Poland today in the city of Poznan. Poznan is the birth place of Copernincus the first man to suggest that the Earth revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. Where better to get down to the serious business of agreeing how to avoid trapping so much of the Sun's heat in the atmosphere that we tip the climate system into chaos.
The deadline for a global agreement is 12 months time in Copenhagen so for the next two weeks 9000 delegates and campaigners will decend on Poznan to hammer out the outlines of a deal.
Permanent link | Comments (0) | Categories: climatechange • Poznan • COP • COP/MOP • UNFCCC
