Authors: Dr. Christopher Phillips, Dr. Lydia Cumiskey, Cathal O’Mahony, Dr. Camila Tavares Pereira, Catriona Iulia Reid, Dr. Conor Quinlan, Dervla McAuley, Mary Frances Rochford, July 2024
Year: 2024
Focusing on lessons learned, the study explores the impact of guiding policies, legislation, and regulations on climate adaptation within the finance and commercial sectors, both internationally and nationally. The research includes a comprehensive literature review, emphasising the pivotal role of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and EU taxonomy frameworks in guiding climate risk assessment practices in relevant sectors. The study included interviews conducted with 20 individuals in roles related to sustainability, risk management, and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) within 11 diverse organisations spanning finance, commercial, consultancy, and climate services sectors. The interview topics were structured around three primary themes: current practices, policy and legislation, and climate actions.
Authors: Dr. Ned Dwyer, Dr. Denise McCullagh and Dr. Billy O’Keeffe, July 2024
Year: 2024
Appropriate adaptation or resilience indicators provide a means to measure and quantify the status of climate adaptation, and the progress of adaptation actions in producing desired outcomes. These indicators help to define an existing situation and to track changes or trends over time. They can provide, for example, the degree of development or implementation of a policy process, or quantitative information, such as the total seasonal rainfall in a given area, or number of road bridges strengthened to withstand extreme weather events. Through a co-development process with TII, 43 adaptation indicators were identified and agreed with TII management, that are both suitable and implementable for national roads and light rail; this comprised 19 climatological, 6 impact, 11 implementation and 8 outcome indicators.
A technical report outlining the methodologies used in surface waters and groundwaters, July 2024
Year: 2024
In Ireland, almost 60 per cent of identified Water Framework Directive (WFD) water bodies1 are monitored. The current ecological status assigned to these waterbodies is based on the results of the 2019-2021 national water quality monitoring programme (EPA, 2021). The status for those water bodies that are not monitored must be assigned by other means. The purpose of this technical paper is to outline how status is assigned to the remaining unmonitored surface waters and groundwaters.
Year: 2024
This report provides an updated overview on the Irish public’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change in the second wave of the Climate Change in the Irish Mind study.
Year: 2024
The EPA has produced provisional estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2023. This report provides early insight into the annual greenhouse gas emissions in advance of final data being submitted to the EU and UN in 2025.
Year: 2024
EPA special topic bulletin on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) as part of a special topic series examining sectoral and cross-cutting climate issues. This bulletin provides an insight into the history of land use in Ireland and looks in detail at the six land use categories relevant to GHG emissions reporting. It also sheds light on Ireland’s LULUCF emissions reduction targets and on updates and revisions to the LULUCF GHG Inventory produced by the EPA.
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for June 2024; published, July 2024, July 2024
Year: 2024
Hydrology Summary Bulletin for June 2024 outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake levels and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
This registration scheme is open to both radon measurement laboratories and suppliers of radon detectors for the measurement of radon in homes and workplaces.
Annual Air Quality Bulletin 2023, June 2024
Year: 2024
Annual AQ Bulletin 2023 for PM10, NO2 and Ozone for the year 2023
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for May 2024; published, June 2024
Year: 2024
Hydrology Summary Bulletin for May 2024 outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake levels and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland
An Indicators Report, June 2024
Year: 2024
This report provides an update on the quality of water in Ireland's rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters and groundwater using information collected in 2023.
Methodology Report, June 2024
Year: 2024
The methodology for the Irish NCCRA has been developed through a wide engagement process in 2024. The methodology outlines the approach for the development and delivery of the NCCRA. The NCCRA will be delivered in three stages; risk identification, risk assessment and urgency and adaptation prioritisation, underpinned by a preliminary stage on scoping and context.
Year: 2024
The ELV Infographic explains that ELVs are cars and vans that have reached the end of their life and their owners scrap them. The infographic provides information on the following: Why we need to recycle ELVs, How ELVs are treated in line with a circular economy, The ELV statistics for Ireland in 2022, as described on this webpage, Key actions that can be taken by car owners, government, and industry to improve the recycling and recovery of ELVs
The EPA Water Conference will be held on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June 2024 in Salthill, Galway. This event will be both in-person and online., May 2024
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
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 for 2030 as set under the EU Effort Sharing Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2018/842).
Year: 2024
This report provides a summary of the latest EPA assessment of the pressures and impacts on our waters using data up to 2021.
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for April 2024; published, May 2024
Year: 2024
Hydrology Summary Bulletin for April 2024 outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake levels and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland
