Environment
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I WOULD like to draw your attention to the outright carnage bestowed on hundreds of acres of our historical raised bog lands in County Westmeath
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Politics attitudes politics
Britain has been made conservative by conservative parties
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Everywhere yet nowhere.
KARI MARIE NORGAARD Interview by John Gibbons A few minutes into Dr Kari Marie Norgaard’s recent lecture in Trinity College, Dublin, she ran a short animation showing the steady ratcheting up of global surface temperatures over time. The clip began in 1950. By the time it had reached 2014 the globe graphic was heavily pock-marked […]
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Cardiff in Brussels.
“In conclusion, for the period up to 2013, there was an inadequate framework at EU and Member State level to translate the EU’s objectives for the sustainable development of aquaculture into reality and the measures actually taken did not provide sufficient results”. – Kevin Cardiff ‘The effectiveness of European Fisheries Fund support for aquaculture’ […]
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By James Nix. A currently proposed, the EU Commission would, for the first time in more than two decades, have no dedicated environment Commissioner. Instead environment is rolled in with fisheries and maritime to make up one of what are essentially 20 sub-Commissioner roles – under Commissioner Karmenu Vella. Its role will centre on deregulation. […]
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Earth 2014
Where success still embraces destruction of the planet’s natural capital.
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By Kieran Fitzpatrick. The Aarhus Convention aims to protect the environment and proclaims the public to be the best guardian of the environment. There are three strands to the convention: 1) Access to information; 2)Public participation; and 3) Access to justice to review environment-related decisions or to enforce environmental law. Ireland was the last […]