An artistic schoolboy from County Donegal has won his classmates a €10,000 eco-garden, after wowing judges with his winning design of a ‘little litterbug.’ Paddy Gallagher, aged 10, from S.N. Naomh Brid in Letterkenny won the Viking for Schools ‘Little Litterbug’ drawing competition – beating off stiff competition from 500 entries from across schools in … Read more
Dublin City Council spends over €31 million euro every year on litter removal and street cleaning, employing over 500 staff working around the clock to keep Dublin clean. It is hugely important that the city looks its best at all times from a business, tourist and leisure point of view and indeed for the citizens … Read more
Data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on 2007-2010 E-Pollutant Release and Transfer (PRTR) reporting to the European Commission is now available on the national PRTR website. The map-based website is a database of chemical substances and pollutants emitted to air, water and soil, and transferred off-site for treatment or disposal. A total of … Read more
Offsetting by European companies grew by a staggering 85% last year, according to new research by the environmental campaign group Sandbag. The companies policed by the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) submitted a total of 254 million credits to offset 13% of their carbon emissions. But Sandbag observes that the vast majority of these offset … Read more
The Government has launched a user-friendly guide to planning enforcement in Irelandand a shorter summary leaflet on the same subject. The two documents on planning enforcement are available on www.environ.ie. Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan, TD comments: “Rebuilding public confidence in the planning system is one of my key aims. For too long … Read more
Dr Alan Belward from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy will provide an evening lecture on the power and potential of earth observation from space as part of the EPA’s Climate Change Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in the Mansion House on Tuesday 20th November at 18:30. Global challenges require global … Read more
In a landmark paper published in the prestigious international journal Current Biology 220 marine experts worldwide, including Professor Mike Guiry of NUI Galway’s Ryan Institute, have come together to estimate how many species there are in our oceans. The answer will come as something of a disappointment to those who claim more than a million … Read more
FTSE Group, NAREIT and the US Green Building Council (USGBC) have jointly developed the first investable green property indexes for both institutional and retail investors. This collaboration brings together the global market leaders in US real estate indexing, REIT market expertise and environmental building standards. The indexes, currently in the final stages of implementation prior … Read more
The European Commission has acted to rescue the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) by proposing to postpone the auctioning of 900 million allowances from 2013-2015 to the next phase of the EU emissions trading system, which ends in 2020. “We support this step. But back-loading only 900 million allowances is not enough to re-establish … Read more
The Carbon Trust is urging British football clubs to improve their performance and compete for the top spot in the sustainability league. A letter has been sent out to all teams in the Premier League, Football League and Scottish Premier League asking them to kick out carbon emissions and secure a victory for the environment … Read more