New Blog Series: Reflections on Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment
The RIA’s Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee launches new blog series to reflect on Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment
In January 2024 the Environmental Protection Agency published Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment (ICCA), a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the state of knowledge around all key aspects of climate change, with a central focus on Ireland. The report provides an assessment of our understanding of climate change, tying together all available lines of evidence to provide actionable information.
The Royal Irish Academy’s Climate Change and Environmental Science (CCES) Committee recognises that it has a role to play in communication and advocacy for climate action in Ireland. Through this new four-part blog series the committee aims to distil and offer perspectives on each of the four ICCA volumes with the goal of highlighting the importance of their content and promoting and sustaining a discussion around the topics addressed.
Fiona Regan, Chair of the CCES Committee, commented:
‘Our aim with this blog series is to contribute to public discourse around Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment and to amplify this important output. The CCES committee is made up of a diverse group of climate and environmental science experts from across Ireland, which puts us in a unique position to respond to national and international developments in this area.’
Frank McGovern from the Environmental Protection Agency said:
‘We are delighted that the RIA’s CCES Committee has produced this blog series on the ICCA volumes as one of its public engagement activities. It also greatly assists us in our consideration of how the information in ICCA is viewed and being used.’
The Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Committee is one of ten RIA multidisciplinary committees that represent a broad spectrum of academics, researchers and industry experts from across the island of Ireland.
You can read the first blog in the series here:
