Tag Archives: Climate Change

Come meet your TD with us and Stop Climate Chaos!

VOICE is calling on all supporters to help us lobby for a strong Irish climate bill. The first draft of the climate change bill is nearing completion and could be published in the coming weeks. However, we’re very concerned that the proposed law will have too many loopholes and shortcomings. We’re joining forces with our allies in [...]

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Climate Change Conference hosted by Wexford County Council

Next Wednesday the 21st of April there will be an interesting conference from 9-4pm on climate change at the Riverside Park Hotel, Enniscorthy. Guest speakers include John Sweeney from NUI Maynooth , Dr. Conor Murphy from NUI Maynooth, Frank Convery from Comhar and NUID- UCD and Mary Kelly from  the EPA. Environmental organisations , businesses [...]

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Age of Stupid Screening this Wednesday 24th at Dundalk IT

Come join VOICE at the screening of film that started the 10:10 campaign. The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, with Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite staring as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: ‘why didn’t [...]

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10:10 at Dublin Zoo

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 [...]

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Copenhagen: Irish Message not Waved

As environment ministers from the UN’s 193 member countries meet at the Bella Center in Copenhagen this week, Irish environmentalists await a fair and safe climate change agreement. This meeting is called a Conference of the Parties (COP) and is held annually. This year’s conference commenced December 7, 2009 and will end on December 18, [...]

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Be a part of The Wave to Stop Climate Chaos

This December, the world’s governments will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate and decide a global climate deal. This deal is crucial to avoid climate catastrophe. We must call on the government to deliver a fair and safe deal–a deal that keeps the rise in global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius, a deal that supports [...]

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Need a good New Year’s resolution? 10:10 Launches in Ireland

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 [...]

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Food Matters

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? [...]

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