Latest Climate Change Publications
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Insight Report Wave 2 No. 1:
Life Stage, March 2025
Year: 2025
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Insight Report Wave 2 No. 1 Life Stage concentrates on how life stage relates to the pattern of responses to Climate Change in the Irish Mind climate change beliefs and risk perceptions questions.
Ireland's National Inventory Submissions 2025
Year: 2025
Ireland's annual inventory submissions including the National Inventory Document (NID) and Common Reporting Table (CRT) data files and supplementary information if available. The NID contains transparent and detailed information on the inventory for years 1990-2023. The CRT tables contain all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, implied emission factors and activity data..
Ireland's UNECE Submissions 2025
Year: 2025
Ireland's submissions under UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and National Emissions Ceiling Directive (NECD) include the Informative Inventory Report (IIR) and Nomenclature for Reporting (NFR) tables. The IIR and NFR contain detailed information on methodologies, activity data and emission factors and emissions for years 1990-2023.
Landfill Gas Survey Return for 2024
Year: 2025
A survey of landfill sites to determine the quantity of methane flared and or recovered in utilisation plants for 2024
EPA Focus on Adaptation Report 2024
Year: 2025
This report highlights recent progress in Ireland’s climate change adaptation, covering areas including policy, governance, planning, climate services, risk assessment, and research. As climate change continues to impact Ireland, adapting to this new reality is essential for the country’s future resilience. Building this resilience requires a coordinated approach that includes strong institutions and governance, adequate resources, legal and regulatory support, regular vulnerability assessments, and climate action planning across national, sectoral, and local levels. Access to information and enhanced capacity for adaptation are also critical.
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2024 Quarter 2
Year: 2024
This is the second EPA report in a new series of quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. The series will complement the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in quarter 2 2024 were down by 4.1 per cent on the same quarter last year. This was mainly driven by declining emissions from electricity generation (-19.1 per cent), agriculture (-4.6 per cent) and industrial processes (-9.4 per cent). It should be noted that these data have been seasonally adjusted to provide a clearer picture of the underlying trends independent of seasonal fluctuations.
Encouraging Cooperation in Climate Collective Action Problems
Behavioural Insights Series No. 3, December 2024
Year: 2024
This report examines how behavioural science can help solve the climate collective action problems.
Gap Analysis on Behavioural Research Related to Climate Policy and Interventions
Behavioural Insights Series: No. 2, November 2024
Year: 2024
This report summarises how behavioural science is being applied both internationally and in Ireland to help achieve climate action targets.
A Review of Climate Change Attitudes Using a Person-Centred Framework
Behavioural Insights Series: No. 1, November 2024
Year: 2024
This report presents a review of climate change attitudes using a person-centred framework
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2024 Quarter 1
Year: 2024
The EPA has launched a new series of quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. The series will complement the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. The data from the first three months of this year show an overall reduction of 2.2 per cent compared to quarter 1 2023, and a 0.2 per cent increase on quarter 4 2023. It should be noted that these data have been seasonally adjusted to provide a clearer picture of the underlying trends independent of seasonal fluctuations.
National Climate Change Risk Assessment
Technical Guidance for Sectoral Risk Assessments, October 2024
Year: 2024
Technical Guidance for Sectoral Risk Assessments has been developed as part of the National Climate Change Risk Assessment process to ensure consistency across national and sectoral planning.
Ireland NIMS 2024
Year: 2024
Climate risk assessment approaches in the financial and commercial sectors
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.
Implementation of Climate Adaptation Indicators: Lessons Learned from the Transport Sector
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.
Climate Change's Four Irelands: Climate Change in the Irish Mind, Wave 2, Report 2
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.
Ireland's Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2023
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.
Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Bulletin
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.
National Climate Change Risk Assessment
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.
Ireland's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2023-2050
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).
Ireland's UNECE Submissions 2024
Year: 2024
Ireland's submissions under UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and National Emissions Ceiling Directive (NECD) include the Informative Inventory Report (IIR) and Nomenclature for Reporting (NFR) tables. The IIR and NFR contain detailed information on methodologies, activity data and emission factors and emissions for years 1990-2022.