- 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: Encouraging Cooperation in Climate Collective Action Problems
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published: Encouraging Cooperation in Climate Collective Action Problems. “This report examines how behavioural science can help solve the climate collective action problem. Behavioural science studies how people make decisions, such as whether to cooperate or free-ride when faced with collective action dilemmas. The report reviews existing research to find…
- 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: 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…
