- Read more: Barriers to Environmental Policy Implementation: Stakeholder perceptions in the context of Ireland
Ireland’s environmental ambitions are consistently undermined by five systemic barriers, from capacity constraints to policy incoherence. This brief distils insights from 34 senior stakeholders and outlines practical strategies to strengthen environmental policy implementation across government, summarising work recently published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning.
- Read more: A National Human Biomonitoring for Ireland (HBM4IRE) programme feasibility study with ambitions for investigating chemical exposures among the population
Human biomonitoring is described as the ‘gold standard’ for chemical risk assessment as it can measure the systemic availability of human exposures to chemicals from all exposure sources and routes by analysing biological samples. This policy brief outlines the key findings and recommendations from the EPA-funded Human Biomonitoring for Ireland (HBM4IRE) project that examined the…
- Read more: Towards Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading: A Policy Pathway for Ireland’s Decentralised Energy Future
This brief proposes a phased roadmap to enable P2P energy trading in Ireland, examining the regulatory, technical, and community-based steps needed to support a more decentralised electricity system in Ireland
- 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: OECD Policy Coherence Scan of Ireland
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report titled “OECD Policy Coherence Scan of Ireland” on 21st July 2025
- Read more: The healthcare costs of poor air quality in Ireland: A review of potential data sources and methods
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report on ‘The healthcare costs of poor air quality in Ireland: A review of potential data sources and methods’ on 27 June 2025.
- Read more: Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework
The government of Ireland published ‘Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-being Framework 2025’ on 26 June 2025.
- Read more: Administrative frictions in Ireland’s Shared Island Sports Club EV Charging Scheme
The Government of Ireland has established targets to facilitate the country’s low-carbon transition, including targets to increase use of electric vehicles (EVs), as part of their Climate Action Plans. In February 2023, Ireland’s Department of Transport launched the Shared Island Sports Club EV Charging Scheme, offering funding for the installation of EV chargers at sports…
- Read more: Environmental Indicators Ireland 2024
The CSO has published: Environmental Indicators Ireland 2024 The Key Findings include: The publication is available here.
- Read more: Data Centres in Ireland
Given the looming threat of a mass exodus of data centres from Ireland, as warned by EirGrid (see Foxe, 2024), this paper examines the role of data centres in the Irish economy and the implications arising from their rapid growth.
