Latest Climate Change Publications
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 4: Resilience indicator development
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 3: Resilient decision-making
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 2: Just resilience
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 1: Technical definitions underpinning resilience
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2025 Quarter 4
Year: 2026
This is the latest EPA report on quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. This series complements the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in Quarter 4 2025 were down by 1.3% on the same quarter last year. This was primarily driven by lower Electricity emissions (-240.5 kt CO₂ eq), partially offset by increases in Buildings (60.8 kt CO₂ eq), Other (39.0 kt CO₂ eq) and Industry emissions (20.8 kt CO₂ eq).
Ireland's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2025-2030
Year: 2026
This report provides an assessment of Ireland’s total projected greenhouse gas emissions which includes an assessment of progress towards achieving its National targets 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 Air Pollutant Emissions Trends and Outlook 2026
Year: 2026
Latest report (2026) on Ireland's National Emission Reduction Commitment Directive (NECD) emissions. Five main air pollutants, NOx, SO2, NH3, NMVOC and PM2.5.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind: Engagement Guidance
Evidence-based approaches for climate messaging , April 2026
Year: 2026
The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ project (CCIM) is a nationally representative study of the Irish people’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change, undertaken by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The CCIM Engagement Guidance translates findings from CCIM into practical advice for anyone communicating or engaging with the public on climate change.
Ireland's Final Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2024
Year: 2026
The EPA has produced final estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2024.
Ireland's National Inventory Submissions 2026
Year: 2026
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 1990-2024. The CRT tables contain all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, implied emission factors and activity data.
Ireland's UNECE Submissions 2026
Year: 2026
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 1990-2024.
EPA Focus on Adaptation Report 2025
Year: 2026
Ireland continued to make progress in climate change adaptation across policy, governance, planning, climate services, risk assessment, and research through 2025. This report summarises relevant national and international developments in climate adaptation in 2025, including new and updated Sectoral Adaptation Plans, publication of the National Climate Change Risk Assessment, completion of TRANSLATE-2 and publication of a report on funding climate adaption in Ireland.
Landfill Gas Survey Return for 2025
Year: 2026
A survey of landfill sites to determine the quantity of methane flared and or recovered in utilisation plants for 2025
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2025 Quarter 3
Year: 2026
This is the latest EPA report on quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. This series complements the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in Quarter 3 2025 were down by 2.8% on the same quarter last year. This was mainly driven by decreases in the Agriculture sector (-184 kt CO₂ eq), driven by decreased fertiliser sales, and the Electricity sector (-89 kt CO₂ eq) due to increased renewables.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Wave 2 Insight Report Number 4 Engagement
How does your engagement with climate change affect your climate knowledge, trust in information sources, climate literacy, perceived climate risk and support for climate policies?, December 2025
Year: 2025
The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ project (CCIM) is a nationally representative study of the Irish people’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change, undertaken by the EPA and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The CCIM Insight report “Climate Engagement” investigates how the public’s engagement with climate change connects to climate knowledge, support for climate policies, trust in information sources and risk perception of climate change.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Wave 2 Insight Report Number 3 Climate Literacy
How does knowing that humans are the main cause of climate change affect your climate literacy, perspective on climate change, support for climate policies?, December 2025
Year: 2025
The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ project (CCIM) is a nationally representative study of the Irish people’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change, undertaken by the EPA and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The CCIM Insight report “Climate Literacy” investigates how the public’s understanding of human caused climate-change connects to their overall climate knowledge, their support for climate policies, and their views on climate change.
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2025 Quarter 2
Year: 2025
This is the latest EPA report on quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. This series complements the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in Quarter 2 2025 were down by 3.2% on the same quarter last year. This was mainly driven by decreases in the Buildings sector (-296 kt CO₂ eq) driven by reduced demand for heating, and the Agriculture sector (-117 kt CO₂ eq) driven by decreased fertiliser sales.
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2025 Quarter 1
Year: 2025
This is the fifth 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. This series complements the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in Quarter 1 2025 were up by 2.9% on the same quarter last year. This was mainly driven by increased emissions in the agriculture sector (+8.7%) due to increased fertiliser sales, and the Electricity sector driven by a 4.1% increase in electricity generation from fossil fuels.
Ireland's Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2024
Year: 2025
The EPA has produced provisional estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2024. This report provides early insight into the annual greenhouse gas emissions in advance of final data being submitted to the EU and UN in 2026.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind Insight Report Wave 2 Number 2: Personal Economy
Does your financial situation impact your attitude to climate change?, June 2025
Year: 2025
The CCIM Insight report ‘Personal Economy’ investigates how personal economic circumstances can influence people’s perspectives on topics like overall policy outlook, support for climate change policies, and trust in climate change information sources.