- Read more: Don’t look back in anger: Making dynamic electricity pricing work for Ireland
By June 2026, Bord Gáis Energy, Electric Ireland, Energia, PrePay Power/Yuno and SSE Airtricity will be obligated by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) to offer dynamic price contracts to customers. This paper outlines what research has told us so far about dynamic pricing and how it can be beneficial in the retail electricity…
- Read more: Climate communication challenges and needs in Ireland’s key sectors
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges of our time, requiring climate action that can be advanced through effective climate communications. In designing such communications, it is essential to understand stakeholders’ key existing needs and challenges. With this aim, a climate communication needs and challenges assessment was conducted with 60 stakeholders from…
- Read more: First Progress Report of Climate Action Plan 2025
The Department of the Taoiseach published the ‘First Progress Report of Climate Action Plan 2024’ on 22 July 2025.
- Read more: National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published the National Climate Change Risk Assessment on June 3, 2025, which provides the first comprehensive assessment of where, when and how climate risks are likely to impact Ireland over the coming decades.
- Read more: OECD Employment Outlook 2024: The Net-Zero Transition and the Labour Market
The OECD has published “OECD Employment Outlook 2024: The Net-Zero Transition and the Labour Market”. The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of key labour market developments and prospects in OECD member countries. The report is available to download here.
- Read more: Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2023-2050
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published “Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2023-2050”. This report provides an assessment of Ireland’s total projected greenhouse gas emissions out to 2050 which includes an assessment of progress towards achieving its National ambitions under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and EU emission reduction targets…
- Read more: What is preventing individual climate action? Impact awareness and perceived difficulties in changing transport and food behaviour
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has published a new report: What is preventing individual climate action? Impact awareness and perceived difficulties in changing transport and food behaviour. In this study, a nationally representative sample of 1,200 adults completed online diaries about their day and then listed the actions they thought mattered most for…
- Read more: Feminist Climate Justice Report
The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice, a joint project between the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Community Work Ireland, has published a report: Feminist Climate Justice Report. The report was prepared by Dr Fiona Dukelow, Dr Catherine Forde and Edith Busteed from the Department of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork. The report…
- Read more: Attitudes to Climate Change: Insights from the European Social Survey Round 10
In this paper, European Social Survey (ESS) data is used to examine whether attitudes to climate change have shifted between 2016-2021, with a focus on Ireland. Understanding attitudes to climate change is important as the State of Climate Action Report (WRI, 2023) found that global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5ºC are “failing across the…
- Read more: Irish Aid Annual Report 2022
The Government of Ireland has published the “Irish Aid Annual Report 2022”.
