Posts in the "Climate%20Action%20Plan" category
Climate Emergency to Action Plan
Posted on July 29, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
As secretariat members of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, we have been very active over the last number of months, campaigning for strong climate action and legislation. Here's a summary!
Climate Action plan
While eagerly awaiting the Climate Action plan, we put together five tests or indicators of how serious the Government is taking climate action seriously, and effective the Plan will be in bringing down emissions pollution. The Government’s new Climate Action Plan was published in mid-June to much fanfare, and in July, we published our assessment of the Plan, in collaboration with the Environmental Pillar. A summary of our report is available here and the full report is available here.
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Youth Activists Address MEPs on Climate
Posted on June 19, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
In the lead up to the MEP elections, Youth Activists came together to voice their demands on climate and how they want to see Irish European representatives act on climate.
Young Friends of the Earth member, Martina, captured some of the event in this video below.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • european elections • climate elections • student activists • climate action • MEP 2019
Thank you for standing with the school strikers!
Posted on October 15, 2019 by Aine O'Gorman
Between the 20th and 27th of September 7.6 million people globally took to the streets to demand climate justice!
This is a celebration of the Irish school strikers, and of the 74 people who organized support actions around Ireland. A celebration of everyone who attended a strike, shared information or spoke to others about the strikes.
Together with our partner organisations in the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, we put the call out to adults across Ireland to make a stand with the school strikers - and you did. Thank you!
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What's driving the fracking boom? Spoiler: it's plastic!
Posted on October 07, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Last week 4,500 people took the email action to tell our politicians that we don't want to import fracked gas!
Public pressure is working! On Friday we got the debate in the Dail, and now Government must undertake a review of Irish energy security before any further support for the Shannon LNG project can proceed.
We need to keep the pressure on, to make sure the review is independent and Paris Aligned. This fight is only beginning.
If you haven't yet signed our petition to Stop Shannon LNG (the terminal planned to import gas) please take action now and share it widely with your friends.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • waste
Don't let the Government bypass the Dáil on fracked gas
Posted on October 02, 2019 by Oisín Coghlan
I really need you to email your TD today.
The Government is trying to lock Ireland into importing fracked gas for decades - WITHOUT ANY DÁIL DEBATE.
They plan to send officials to Brussels on Friday to approve special treatment for plans to build gas import terminals on the west coast, against the advice of EU experts, and before the Dáil gets the chance to discuss it.
I'll tell my TD that's not good enough
Yesterday Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil voted against making time to debate a special motion on the issue this week.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy
What's gas got to do with plastic?
Posted on October 01, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Do you ever wonder about the link between gas and plastics?
Well the first link is that the plastic industry is owned by big oil and gas companies including DowDuPont, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and BP.
The second big link is that plastic is made from oil and gas!
Despite our best efforts to refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle, plastic production is set to increase 40% over the next decade.
This is because fracking is on the rise and fracked gas is the raw material that makes plastic.
Want to learn more? Check out this webinar!
The Gastivists Collective are hosting this really great webinar series to dive deeper into the links between gas and plastic, and why we need to #KeepItInTheGround to #BreakFreeFromPlastic!
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Can you help the School Strikers be seen and heard? Literally.
Posted on September 17, 2019 by Oisín Coghlan
One of Greta Thunberg's great lines is "When we start to act, hope is everywhere". For me, watching 11,000 young people throng Molesworth Street last March it was slightly different. Seeing such action all around, I started to hope.
The global School Strikes For Climate movement that Greta sparked [1] has given me hope that together we can build a movement powerful enough, fast enough, to tip the balance towards serious climate action.
It is of course totally unjust that today's teenagers have to give up part of their childhoods to clear up the mess adults caused, in order to rescue us and save their own future.
So when the young Strikers ask for help, I really want to say yes.
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Support the Climate Strike Movement!
Posted on September 11, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
It's a Climate Emergency.
And on September 20th, we're filling the streets.
On Friday the 15th of March 2019 1.6 million people took part in a global climate strike in more than 125 countries in more than 2,000 locations. In Ireland more than 15,000 students took part in protests for urgent climate action.
This September 20th, we're going to smash that number. But we need you to make that happen!
Find and join your nearest strike!
School-age students have self-organised marches around the country and they need you to attend.
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Peat.
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Kate Ruddock
Friends of the Earth objected to ESB's proposal for a peat and biomass plant at Shannonbridge West Offaly. The idea that Ireland would import chopped up trees and woody materials from all over the world to burn alongside dried out peat in order to produce electricity was unconscionable. Our bogs are Ireland's equivalent of the Amazon rainforest. Our biodiversity hotspots. Fragile ecosystems bursting with plants and animals not found anywhere else AND they serve as natural carbon sinks, sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere helping us to combat climate breakdown.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • biodiversity
Start the Conversation with a Book
Posted on July 29, 2019 by Claudia Tormey
Books are a great way to learn about the world and ourselves, and can often spark deeper discussions.
Talking about environmental issues such as climate change isn't always easy, so books can be a good way to start the conversation.
Our first ever book club series seems to be going quite well. We've hosted physical events in Dublin, Wicklow and Belfast and have engaged with many of you online through our webinars. Because we can't always meet in person, we're trying out new ways to connect.
On March 28th, we launched our book club at the Fumbally Stables in Dublin, joined by author and activist Lorna Gold to discuss her book ‘Climate Generation, Awakening to our Children’s Future’.
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