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Useful Links
Ireland
http://www.combatclimatechange.ie/
Information on climate change and how to combat it.
http://www.epa.ie
The functions of the Environmental Protection Agency in relation to climate change include monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and the administration of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
http://www.met.ie/climate/climate-of-ireland.asp
Information on Ireland's climate from Met Éireann.
http://www.c4i.ie/
Community Climate Change Consortium for Irland (C4I). Based in Met Éireann, its main objevctive is to consolidate and intensify teh national effort in cliamte change research by building a capability for carrying out regional climate modelling in Ireland and to provide assistance to irish scientists utilizing climate model output for their analyses.
http://www.enfo.ie/
ENFO - Ireland's public information serice on the environment.
http://www.sei.ie/
Sustainable Energy Ireland - national authority for the promotion of renewable and sustainable energy.
http://www.powerofone.ie/
Information campaign on energy efficiency for Ireland.
http://www.ria.ie/committees/iccc/index.html
The Royal Irish Academy has established an Irish Committee on Climate Change addressing national climate concerns and promoting research in Ireland on global climate change.
International
http://www.unfccc.de/
Website of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Includes information on the Kyoto Protocol and its flexible mechanisms and meetings and decisions of the Parties to the Convention and the Protocol.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/home_en.htm:
European Commission website on climate change.
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/keyresult.asp?KEYWORD_ID=4106
Climate related issues on the International Energy Agency information Centre Website.
http://www.iisd.ca/
International Institute for Sustainable Development.
NGO
http://www.grian.ie
Greenhouse Ireland Action Network
http:/www.foe.ie
Friends of the Earth.
http://www.pewclimate.org
PEW Center on Global Climate Change, US non-profit, non-partisan, independent organisation established in 1998 by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
http://www.climatenetwork.org/
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Climate Science
http://www.ipcc.ch
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change.
http://tyndall.ac.uk/index.shtml
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
http://www.ukcip.org.uk
UK Climate Impacts Programme.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
The US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change website.
Publications & Documents
- National Climate Change Strategy 2000 - Plain Guide (pdf, 247 kb)
- National Climate Change Strategy 2000 Executive Summary (pdf, 74 kb)
- National Climate Change Strategy 2000 Pages 1-30 (pdf, 527 kb)
- National Climate Change Strategy 2000 pages 31-60 (pdf, 429 kb)
- National Climate Change Strategy 2000 pages 61-90 (pdf, 473 kb)
- Implementation of the National Climate Change Strategy Progress Report (pdf, 708 kb)
- Determining the Share of National Greenhouse Emissions for Emissions Trading in Ireland 2008-2012 - Final Report (pdf, 611 kb)
- National Climate Change Strategy 2007-2012 Summary leaflet (pdf, 605 kb)
- more publications
News and Speeches
- 29/10/09: EPA publishes report on the impacts of climate change in Ireland, Minister Gormley launches www.1010.ie website
- 11/09/09: Support Your Local School In Climate Change Competition By Finding Your Carbon Number – And You Could Save Money Too
- 01/04/09: Earth Hour 2009 - Time for Change - Gormley
- 12/12/08: Gormley Welcomes Agreement on EU Climate Change Package
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