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Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 2: Just resilience

Summary: 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.

Published: 2026

ISBN: ISBN 978-1-80009-391-1 June / 2026 / Website

Pages: 32

Filesize: 2,191 KB

Format: pdf

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Working Group 2: Just resilience

Authors: Alan O'Connor, Ann Marie Crosse, Anna Davies, Anne-Marie Bell, Bronwyn Hall McLoughlin, Caitriona De Paor, Charlie Coakley, Christopher Phillips, Cian Gill, Cormac McKay, Darren Clarke, Eadaoin Healy, Gregory Murray, Helena Fitzgerald, Jodie Colgan, Johanna Varghese, John Enright, Jonathan Chambers, Jordan Delmar, Joseph McNamara, Kevin McCormick, Kritika Singhal, Laura Dixon, Liz Wakefield, Lorcan Connolly, Miguel Trejo Rangel, Naomi Blumlein, Paul McBride, Paula Lynch, Ronan Walsh, Suzanne Jackson, Tim Kavanagh, Tracey Skillington

Working Group 2 focused on clarifying what “just resilience” means in the Irish context and how principles of fairness, participation, and access can be embedded in adaptation planning and decision-making. This report concludes that Ireland’s resilience strategy must embed justice and equity at every stage with community knowledge informing planning to create meaningful engagement. The working group report calls for establishing national and local resilience objectives linked to vulnerability assessments; integrating equity into technical standards, funding criteria, and foresight tools; scaling health-oriented adaptation; building local capacity; and improving communication strategies.