Monitoring Programme for Public Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (0Hz–300GHz) 2021-2023

Year: 2020

Monitoring Programme for Public Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (0Hz–300GHz) 2021-2023 Programme

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Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2019

Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2019, November 2020

Year: 2020

This report provides an overview of urban waste water treatment in Ireland during 2019. It focuses on the most important issues that Irish Water needs to address to protect our environment from the harmful effects of waste water discharges

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Intercalibration of the Lake Acidification Macroinvertebrate Metric (LAMM) in Ireland

Year: 2020

This report was submitted to the European Commission and shows how Ireland intercalibrated the UK developed classification tool, Lake Acidification Method Metric (LAMM) for the pressure acidification in the Irish situation using Irish lake invertebrate data. It shows how Ireland successfully intercalibrated the class boundaries of the LAMM adapted for the Irish situation using IE Data with those agreed in the Northern Geographical Intercalibration Group N-GIG intercalibration exercise following the Common Implementation Strategy Guidance Document No. 30 “Procedure to fit a new or updated classification method to the results of a completed Intercalibration Exercise” (EC, 2015 – 085).

Lake monitoring aquatic plants - Fact Sheet

Lake monitoring aquatic plants - Fact Sheet

This Plain English fact sheet outlines the work done by the EPA in monitoring aquatic plants in Irish lakes., July 2020

Year: 2020

Aquatic plants are good at showing if the quality of the water is good or bad and play an important role in lake ecology by providing food and a habitat for many smaller plants, animals and birds.

Second SEA Effectiveness Review Training Event Summary

Year: 2020

This document provides a summary of the second SEA Effectiveness Review training event, held in Portlaoise on the 3rd March 2020. It captures some of the knowledge of the participants and some of the learning outcomes from the event, to assist further shared learning.

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Ireland's National Inventory Submissions 2020

Year: 2020

Ireland's annual inventory submissions including the National Inventory Report (NIR) and Common Reporting Format (CRF) data files and supplementary information if available. The NIR contains transparent and detailed information on the inventory for years 1990-2018. The CRF tables contain all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, implied emission factors and activity data.

Electromagnetic Fields, 5G and Health

Year: 2020

Electromagnetic fields or EMF are a form of non-ionising radiation, which together with optical and ionising radiation comprise the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Ireland's Provisional Greenhouse Gas emissions 1990-2019

Year: 2020

The EPA has produced provisional estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2019

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Ireland's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2019-2040

Year: 2020

This report provides an updated assessment of Ireland’s total projected greenhouse gas emissions out to 2040 which includes an assessment of progress towards achieving its emission reduction targets out to 2020 and 2030 set under the EU Effort Sharing Decision (Decision No 406/2009/EU) and Effort Sharing Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2018/842).

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Air Quality in Ireland 2019

Key Indicators of Ambient Air Quality., April 2020

Year: 2020

Summary of ambient air quality in 2019 based on concentration measurements of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals, ozone, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and benzene.

Air Pollutant Emissions in Ireland 1990-2018

Ireland's UNECE Submissions 2020

Year: 2020

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 1990-2018.

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