Instructions to Measure NO2
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.
Assigning Ecological Status to Unmonitored Water Bodies in 2016-2021
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.
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.
Litter Waste Characterisation Report 2024
Year: 2024
This report presents the composition of the national public litter waste in Ireland in 2024. The profile was generated from a series of physical analysis of public litter waste streams. The report profiles the following waste streams: • Public street litter bins (20 03 99A) waste is litter placed by the public in designated public waste bins. • Local Authority (LA) Street litter sweeping activities (20 03 03), includes materials from suction vehicles and manual picking. • Other litter clean-up events, including some beach clean-ups (20 03 99B), is an organised activity focused on the removal of litter from a designated area, often conducted by volunteers in a community or environmental initiative.
Water Quality in 2023
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.
National Climate Change Risk Assessment Methodology Report
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).
Update on pressures impacting on water quality
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.
Bathing water quality in Ireland in 2023.
Year: 2024
This is a report about bathing water quality in Ireland during 2023.
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.
Ireland's Air Pollutant Emissions 2022 (1990-2030)
Year: 2024
Latest report (2024) on Ireland's National Emission Reduction Commitment Directive (NECD) emissions. Five main air pollutants, NOx, SO2, NH3, NMVOC and PM2.5
Ireland's Final Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2022
Year: 2024
The EPA has produced final estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2022. In addition a dedicated Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) publication summarising recent changes is in preparation.
2023 Annual Report on the National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2021-2027
Year: 2024
Under Key Action 19.2 of the National Hazardous Waste Management Plan 2021 – 2027, the EPA is required to provide an annual update on the progress of the Plan recommendations. As a result, this report sets out to achieve key action 19.2 of the plan and accordingly Section 3 of this report provides an update on all recommendations and key actions with a timeframe of 2021, 2022, 2023, ‘ongoing’ and ‘annually’.