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Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers: A crosscutting international instrument for advancing sustainability

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Mark Keenan

The current global ecological situation is perilous to humankind. Accumulated releases of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are causing climate change and eco-toxic releases are significantly impacting the environment and human health. Global eco-systems and resources are in decline. There is a … Continue reading →

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Transforming the system: Is eco-innovation enough?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Mark Keenan

The challenge of the 21st century is to align our political, economic, social and technological systems with the science of sustainability and the reality of resource limits, while maintaining wellbeing for citizens. In 2011, we are facing the decade of … Continue reading →

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Comhar’s Green New Deal makes sense

Posted on October 1, 2009 by John Gibbons

At 11am today in the Irish Academy in Dublin’s Dawson Street, Comhar, the sustainable development council formally launches its Green New Deal for Ireland. It’s a genuinely impressive document, as I’ve outlined in the Irish Times today, with much to … Continue reading →

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Which part of ‘conserve’ don’t conservatives get?

Posted on September 18, 2009 by John Gibbons

Let’s hear it for Connie Hedegaard. Connie who? She’s the Danish minister for climate and energy and, crucially, will host the UN-sponsored global climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen this December. That puts her in the hottest of hot seats in … Continue reading →

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Taking the Mick on aviation and climate change

Posted on July 17, 2008 by John Gibbons

A week ago my column in the Irish Times dared to suggest that maybe, just maybe, dirt cheap aviation รก la the Ryanair model (now aped by our former national carrier as well) is perhaps not the world’s best idea … Continue reading →

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On a wing and a prayer

Posted on May 7, 2008 by John Gibbons

Airlines are forever telling us that aviation is just a teeny weeny contributor to greenhouse gases, nothing to be bothered about really. The figure of 2% of total emissions being attributable to flying is frequently quoted in defence of our … Continue reading →

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Time to put a lid on bottled water

Posted on February 18, 2008 by John Gibbons

‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former’. That’s the view of no less an observer than Albert Einstein. Though his judgement may seem a little harsh, the strange story of … Continue reading →

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