PRESS RELEASE: Phil Hogan reveals true colours by delaying Climate Bill The Environmental Pillar of Social Partnership expressed disappointment at today’s announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, that a Climate Change Bill is not a priority. This represents a significant backtrack on the Government’s commitment to deliver climate change legislation by 2012. [...]
There is good news today from Australia as the parliament passes a law to introduce a carbon tax. While the tax is divisive, VOICE welcomes this development as a major step forward in the international fight against climate change. Tweet Tweet
Below is an article from the Guardian detailing the International Energy Agency’s unpublished findings that carbon emissions rose by a record amount last year. As a consequence, aims to prevent global temperatures from rising by 2 degrees Celsius are likely to be just “a nice Utopia”, according to Fatih Birol, chief economist of the IEA. [...]
VOICE welcomes the UK Government’s pledge to halve carbon emissions by 2025, based on a comparison with 1990 levels. Below is an article from today’s Guardian, which claims this move represents “the most ambitious targets on greenhouse gases of any developed country”. We hope that the Irish government will soon follow suit, and make [...]
Currently working its way through the Irish legislative system is an Irish Climate Change Bill that has the potential to be one of the strongest of its kind in the world. The importance of such a bill cannot be understated, the sooner real change is cemented into law, the sooner Ireland can lead the way [...]
The 15th Convergence Festival started yesterday May 26th and runs until Tuesday the 1st of June. It is run by The Village Project in Cloughjordan, Cultivate, Transition Ireland and many more and it features talks, conferences, workshops and world café discussions on how urban and rural communities can adapt and thrive in these uncertain times. [...]
Two 8 foot tall, blinking, walking, talking and dancing Polar Bears set off yesterday January 20th from Dublin Zoo to encourage the people of Ireland to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. The bears were waved goodbye by Dublin Zoo Director, Leo Oosterweghel and 10:10’s campaign’s manager, John Hesnan. Charles Stanley-Smith, An Taisce, Ciara [...]
A number of environmental NGOs and Minister John Gormely came together on the steps of the Dail on the 29th of October to launch the first branch of the international campaign 10:10. Founded by film director Franny Armstrong, the 10:10 UK campaign grew from the hit ‘The Age of Stupid’ where Armstrong showed viewers what [...]
Food is vital, but its preparation, distribution, consumption and disposal play a huge role in climate change. VOICE’s latest campaign Food Matters focuses on the issues surrounding food and the environment offering information and advice for how each of us can make a difference to our eating, shopping and recycling habits. Why does food matter? [...]
Foods, once grown, picked and packaged are then flown all around the world. Different methods of transport vary greatly in their use of energy and subsequently the amounts of CO2 emitted. Air-freight, train and cargo ship are the most common ways to transport foods. Planes emit more greenhouse gases per mile than any other mode [...]
