Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Synthesis Report
Year: 2024
The Synthesis Report acts as a concise summary of the most important science on climate change presented in the underlying volumes. Selected findings that are deemed of the highest policy and societal relevance from each underlying volume are integrated into the report. The synthesis report highlights the underlying volumes details, where the interested reader can discover further information.
Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 1
Summary for Policymakers, January 2024
Year: 2024
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides key insights from Volume 1 of Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment: Climate Science – Ireland in a Changing World. Volume 1 focuses on the state of knowledge of the physical science basis of climate change, both globally and nationally.
Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 2
Summary for Policymakers, January 2024
Year: 2024
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides key insights from Volume 2: Achieving Climate Neutrality by 2050. Volume 2 addresses the achievement of climate neutrality by 2050.
Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 3
Summary for Policymakers, January 2024
Year: 2024
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides key insights from Volume 3: Being Prepared for Ireland’s Future Climate. Volume 3 covers the impacts we are likely to face and how we can prepare for these changes in an Irish context.
Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4
Summary for Policymakers, January 2024
Year: 2024
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides key insights from Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation. Volume 4 highlights the benefits, opportunities and synergies that can be achieved through transformation, and how they can be realised.
Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Independent Commentary
Year: 2024
An independent commentary on Ireland's Climate Change Assessment.
SEA Pack
Year: 2024
We have compiled this 'pack' to help planning authorities when carrying out strategic environmental assessments (SEAs). It is based on our experience to date, as a statutory SEA Environmental Authority under the SEA Regulations. It takes account of current 'best' practice in the SEA process. We update this pack regularly and we also refer to it during SEA Scoping consultations. It has been last updated in January 2024.
Data Dictionary Climate Change in the Irish Mind Wave-1
Year: 2023
This supporting document contains a dictionary and provides associated supporting information to the CCIM.
Good practice guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Landscape
Year: 2023
This document aims to provide guidance and ideas on how to take landscape considerations into account when carrying out strategic environmental assessments (SEA) of plans and programmes in Ireland.
Circular Economy and Waste Statistics Highlights Report 2021
Year: 2023
This report gives the data highlights on waste generation and management in Ireland in 2021. Key trends and progress towards upcoming EU targets, along with information on material consumption and circularity are provided. A new spotlight section focuses on current topics in the circular economy area. An update to circular economy actions published in 2022 is given along with further actions that government, industry and individuals can make to help us transition towards a circular economy.
National Air Event 2023
Clean Air – Vital for our Health, October 2023
Year: 2023
Agenda for the National Air Event on 15 November 2023
Urban Wastewater Treatment in 2022
Year: 2023
This report provides an overview of urban wastewater treatment in Ireland during 2022. It identifies the priority issues that Uisce Éireann must address to protect our environment from the harmful effects of wastewater discharges.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Wave 1 Insight Report 2
Climate Risk Perceptions, October 2023
Year: 2023
This is a detailed examination of some of the findings of the 'Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ 2021, Wave 1 baseline study. This report shows that despite high levels of concern among the Irish public about climate change and high levels of overall support for climate action, there remains a sense that people in other countries and in the future will be more impacted than Irish people in the here and now.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Wave 1 Insight Report 1
Support for Climate Policies, October 2023
Year: 2023
This is a detailed examination of some of the findings of the 'Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ 2021, Wave 1 baseline study. This report indicates that the majority of Irish people support climate policies. Opposition to climate policies does not appear to be reflective of climate denial, underlying concerns, or suspicions around climate change, rather it is related to local issues and concerns.
Seventeenth National Radon Forum
Year: 2023
The 17th National Radon Forum took place on Wednesday 4th October in the Clayton Silversprings Hotel in Cork. Download the agenda from the day here.