Sustainability

Future Forty: Climate Change and the Green Transition

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Future Forty, as part of its long term analysis, examines the potential long term impact of climate change and the green transition on Ireland’s economy and public finances in the years ahead. …

Social Justice Matters Podcast - Aoife Ní Lochlain on Aviation and Fairness in Climate Policy: The Case for Making Flying Pay

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Our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of ' Managing Change to Build a Just Society'. Ireland is going through several major transitions, each of which is only going to deepen with…

Social Justice Matters Podcast - Social Justice Ireland on COP 30

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The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the upcoming 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10…

Who Owns the Planet? Rethinking Capital to Tackle Climate Change

Climate Inequality Report 2025: Climate Change: A Capital Challenge – Why Climate Policy Must Tackle Ownership

The Climate Inequality Report 2025 from the World Inequality Lab argues that the climate crisis and wealth (and ownership) inequality are intimately connected and that effective climate policy must…

Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025

The recent Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards from the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development…

Social Justice Matters Podcast - Steven O'Connell from the Football Cooperative - A community football health intervention for Men

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Steven O’Connell is the founder of Football Cooperative, an award winning social enterprise that places recreational football as a hook to bring men together to get active delivering positive health…

Global Goals Week 2025

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Ireland’s fourth SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Week is taking place this year from 19 – 28 September 2025.  September is a month for action and activity around…

Connecting People to the Energy Transition

NESC Energy Report

A new report by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) focuses on how to better connect people to a changing energy system so that it is just and inclusive. The report highlights how …

Just Transition Commission urges Government to put Just Transition at heart of national climate action

JTC introductory report

The first report of Ireland’s Just Transition Commission urges the Government to develop a bold and forward-looking strategy that places just transition at the heart of national climate action. …

Earth Overshoot Day 2025: Humanity Exhausts Nature's Annual Resources by July 24

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On June 5, 2025—World Environment Day—the Global Footprint Network announced that Earth Overshoot Day will fall on July 24 this year. This marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological…