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Climate Case Ireland welcomes cross-party report that recommends Minister Eamon Ryan “preserve the effect of the Supreme Court in Climate Case Ireland.”
Climate Case Ireland, who earlier this year won a historic Supreme Court case against the Irish Government for failing to take adequate action on climate change, has welcomed the publication of the Report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate…
Open Letter on Ireland’s 2020 Climate Bill.
The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020 (the ‘Climate Bill’) has been described by Climate Case Ireland campaigners as “designed to prevent litigation and avoid legal accountability” at a time when access to justice for environmental organisations…
Climate Bill is fatally weak and threatens to undermine Supreme Court’s judgment in Climate Case Ireland
Press release published November 20th, 2020. Ireland’s Climate Bill 2020 threatens to undermine the impact of the Supreme Court’s historic judgment in Climate Case Ireland and creates a framework so weak as to be incapable of enabling the urgent…
Amidst a climate and biodiversity crisis, hope emerges: Friends of the Irish Environment win historic ‘Climate Case Ireland’ in the Irish Supreme Court
Today, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) won their historic legal challenge, known as ‘Climate Case Ireland,’ against the Irish Government. The landmark Supreme Court judgment held that the Government’s National Mitigation Plan, a main plank of its climate change…
Supreme Court Day 2!
Tuesday was the second (and final) day of our Supreme Court hearing. The Court heard counter arguments to our appeal from the State, then Friends of the Irish Environment had 45 minutes to respond before proceedings ended. Further information and…
Supreme Court Day 1!
“Nobody will refreeze the ice sheets. Nobody will get water levels back down”. – Eoin McCullough, Senior Counsel, Friends of the Irish Environment After three years, today we brought our case against the Irish government’s failure to take climate action…
‘Climate Case Ireland’ to be heard by the Supreme Court on 22nd and 23rd June 2020
Climate Case Ireland, brought by Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), is a legal challenge to the Irish government’s 2017 National Mitigation Plan, a key plank of the State’s climate policy. FIE argues that the government’s decision to adopt a…
Supreme Court to hear Climate Case Ireland appeal
Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) yesterday received permission to ‘leapfrog’ over the Court of Appeal and to bring ‘Climate Case Ireland’ directly before the Supreme Court, making this only the third climate case globally to reach the level of…
Ireland’s emissions dangerously high, EPA report finds
A new report [2] published by the Environmental Protection Agency today reveals that Ireland’s emissions amounted to a massive 60,506 kilotonnes CO2 equivalent in 2018, meaning that our emissions have increased by almost 10% between 1990 and 2018, when the government itself has agreed that our emissions need to decrease by 25-40% from 1990 to 2020 to help avert dangerous climate breakdown.
Friends of the Irish Environment to consider grounds for appealing High Court ruling in historic climate case
Today, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) announced it will consider grounds for appealing the decision of the High Court in its historic Irish climate case. The court held that the Irish government’s decision to adopt the National Mitigation Plan,…