Climate records on either side of the Irish Sea are collected to different standards, which muddies the picture. This project is building one consistent climate and water dataset for the UK and Ireland. Find out more about the work here 👉️

Islands of Britain and Ireland Climate Dataset - Climate Co Centre

This project aims to create a more accurate and consistent climate dataset for the UK & Ireland. It will use the same high-quality methods...

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"The question is not whether climate change caused the heatwave, but how much hotter and more dangerous heatwaves have become because greenhouse gases, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have accumulated in the atmosphere." ca.news.yahoo.com/heatwave-cau...

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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The EU Nature Restoration Law tells Ireland to restore 20% of damaged land and sea by 2030. It doesn't say where. A new Climate + Co-Centre PhD by Hazel Craven (with @ybuckley.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social) is building the evidence to target restoration where it counts. 🔗

Maximising Biodiversity Outcomes Under the Nature Restoration Law - Climate Co Centre

Biodiversity refers to the variety of living things in the world. It is essential for healthy ecosystems and for human life, but it is currently declining across the globe.

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Heavier rain and growing cities mean more urban flooding and more sewage in rivers. Our new project led by Prof Claire Walsh (@newcastleuni.bsky.social) is building a planning tool for Blue Green Infrastructure to cut flood risk, with co-benefits for wildlife and cities. 🔗

Design and Evaluation of Multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure Under Climate Change - Climate Co Centre

As towns and cities grow, and climate change causes heavier and more frequent rain, dealing with rainwater has become a major environmental problem in the UK and Ireland. This has led to two serious…

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Who gets to challenge a planning decision in Ireland? Maisie McDavid (UCD) on the proposed cap on recoverable legal costs in environmental judicial reviews, and why critics warn it could price ordinary applicants out:

Ireland's Judicial Review Cost Reforms: Environmental Justice at Risk?

Ireland's Planning and Development Act 2024 proposes capping legal costs in environmental judicial reviews. Critics warn it could limit access to justice.

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On World Nature Conservation Day we are asking a hard question: do the nature-based solutions we recommend actually work? Our Evidence for Nature-Based Solutions project is using LLMs to synthesise the research faster, to support policy and decision-making.. 🔗

Evidence for Nature-Based Solutions - Climate Co Centre

Traditional ways of collecting evidence are time-consuming and labour-intensive, which makes it difficult it difficult to keep up with the rapidly expanding amount of scientific evidence…

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@researchinfo.bsky.social wants to hear from people across Ireland as part of the Research in Ireland Barometer 2026. Your views will help shape how research is communicated, supported and connected to society. Take part or find out more here: www.researchireland.ie/research-in-...

Research in Ireland Barometer | Research Ireland

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"This is probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, peacetime forced relocation of people in the history of Europe." @peterthorne.bsky.social spoke to @cnn.com yesterday about wildfires in Europe and how they are being 'supercharged by climate change'. video.snapstream.net/Play/1CsQDb2...

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Ruth Chittock joins us as a PhD student at @newcastleuni.bsky.social. She is working on the design and evaluation of multi-functional blue green infrastructure under climate change. Welcome to the Climate + Co-Centre Ruth! Find our more about her work here👇️

Ruth Chittock - Climate Co Centre

Ruth is a PhD student with the Climate + Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water, working on the Design and Evaluation of Multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure Under Climate Change.

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National Bog Day! Satellites, LiDAR & drones tell us a lot about peatlands but miss changes in land use & biodiversity. Our project (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social, @unioflimerick.bsky.social) is building methods to combine them with long-term monitoring.

Integration of Geospatial Data and Data Analytics - Climate Co Centre

This project aims to develop need new ways to analyse these data to build better models that combine ground information with ...

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Where do under-18s actually get a say in climate, biodiversity and water policy, and does it ever reach the decisions that affect them? A new Climate + Co-Centre PhD by Naiara Carneiro Nunes (supervised by Diarmuid Torney, @dublincityuni.bsky.social) is finding out.

The Roles of Children and Young People in Environmental Decision Making - Climate Co Centre

Children and young people have a right to participate in decisions which affect them, including those on climate change and biodiversity loss.

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🎥 Green Careers Series | Episode 19 Meet @edhawkins.org, Professor of Climate Science GB lead at the Climate + Co-Centre. Ed talks about why understanding the physics of the atmosphere is essential to tackling climate change and building a more sustainable future. 🔗

Ed Hawkins | Green Careers

Meet Ed Hawkins, Professor of Climate Science and Deputy Director of the Climate+ Co-Centre, leading the Great Britain component of the centre’s research. Ed talks about his background in physics,…

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What can PhD researchers and industry teams build in five days? An AI wind turbine assistant, a renewables site optimiser, and a flood loss predictor for Irish homes. From the AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox with ICTSkillnet. 🔗

How Enterprise AI is Solving Real-World Climate Challenges

In a fast-paced, five-day sprint at Trinity College Dublin’s Innovation Hub, the latest cohort of the AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox demonstrated that rapid technology deployment isn’t a…

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Coastal adaptation usually means seawalls and setback lines. RECLAIM asks a different question: what happens to people's health, identity and sense of belonging when the places they love wash away? Read more about this project 👇️

RECLAIM: Resilience and Wellbeing Through Adaptation to Place Loss - Climate Co Centre

Irish and British coasts are eroding at an increasing pace, driven by rising sea levels and more intense storms linked to climate change. With further sea-level rise expected, more coastline will be…

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Adapting to climate change is no longer optional. Professor @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social shares the @thecccuk.bsky.social new report on our blog, with eight priorities to prepare the UK for heat, flooding and drought. 🔗

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Professor Hayley Fowler on the Climate Change Committee's new report on UK climate adaptation, and the eight priorities for a safer, more resilient country.

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Welcome to the Climate + Co-Centre, Jamie Pow Jamie is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. His research focuses on political attitudes and the role of citizens in democratic decision-making. 👉

Jamie Pow - Climate Co Centre

Jamie Pow is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Queen’s University Belfast. His research focuses on political attitudes and the role of citizens in democratic decision-making, including…

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🎥 Green Careers Series | Episode 18 Meet Joanne Butler, Co-ordinator of OURganic Gardens, a social enterprise working with community groups to grow their own food, live sustainably and care for local environments. 🔗

Joanne Butler | Green Careers

Meet Joanne Butler, Co-ordinator of OURganic Gardens in Co. Donegal, a social enterprise working with community groups to grow their own food, live sustainably and care for local environments. Joanne…

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Ireland's hottest ever recorded temperature is 33.3°C (Kilkenny, 1887). New modelling by Ed Hawkins (Reading) with the UK Met Office predicts a 1976-style summer in a mid-century climate would hit 38°C in Ireland by 2056. Yvonne Buckley explains what this means:

Research on climate, biodiversity and water is published faster than anyone can review it by hand. A new Climate + Co-Centre project trains AI to read and synthesise the literature, with IPCC-style confidence ratings on every summary. Find out more here: 🔗

Automatic Evidence Synthesis Using Large Language Models - Climate Co Centre

The volume of new research being published on climate, biodiversity, and water is growing faster than can realistically be analysed.

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467 researchers across 54 countries have set the 50 priority questions for peatland science over the next decade. The striking thing: we still don't know where all the world's peatlands are, or how much carbon they hold. Read our summary here:

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467 researchers across 54 countries have set the peatland research priorities for the next decade, from carbon storage to restoration and equity.

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Welcome to the Climate+ Co-Centre, Ijlal Haida! Ijlal joins us as a Postdoctoral researcher student based at @ucc.ie. He works on plant responses to climate change, with a particular interest in grassland conservation, restoration, and sustainable ecosystem management. 🔗

Ijlal Haidar - Climate Co Centre

Ijlal Haidar is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Climate + Co-Centre and the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at University College Cork. His research focuses on plant…

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🎥 Green Careers Series | Episode 17 Meet Dylan Mellody-Kelly, Climate Ambassador and Communications Officer at the National Transport Authority. Dylan talks about how being part of a climate community supports practical action for people and the future. 🔗

Dylan Mellody Kelly | Green Careers

Meet Dylan Mellody Kelly, Climate Ambassador and Communications Officer with the National Transport Authority’s Active Travel and Sustainable Transport team. Dylan talks about his background in…

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Millions of weather observations sit in archives, invisible to climate models. Our new project (Susanna Brotchie & @edhawkins.org, @uniofreading.bsky.social) is using LLMs to digitise them, pushing our reconstructions back past 1872, the wettest UK year on record. 👉️

Reconstructing Changes in Extreme Weather over the British and Irish Isles - Climate Co Centre

Heavy rainfall and other extreme weather events can have serious consequences for people, infrastructure, wildlife and the wider environment. Climate change is making these extreme events more…

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Welcome to the Co-Centre, Tingting Kang! Based at @ucddublin.bsky.social, she is working on the project Using AI to Integrate Environmental Data. Their work focuses on improving how complex environmental datasets can be combined to support better decision-making. 🔗

Tingting Kang - Climate Co Centre

Tingting is a researcher at the Climate + Co-Centre, where they work on the project Using AI to Integrate Environmental Data. Their work focuses on improving how complex environmental datasets can be…

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We're looking for contributors to the Climate + Co-Centre news section. Work on climate, biodiversity or water — in research, industry, an NGO or government? If you're doing something people should know about, we'd like to hear from you. Get in touch!

Welcome to the Climate+ Co-Centre, Adina Florea! Adina joins us as a PhD student based at @dublincityuni.bsky.social. Her research focuses on social media representation of climate, water & biodiversity issues relevant to climate-vulnerable communities in Ireland. 🔗 buff.ly/czInkAO

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🎥 Green Careers Series | Episode 16 Meet Dr Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Assistant Professor in Accounting at @dublincityuni.bsky.social Business School. Aideen talks about why finance is essential to addressing climate and nature-related challenges. 🔗

Aideen O’Dochartaigh | Green Careers

Meet Dr Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Assistant Professor in Accounting at Dublin City University Business School and Funded Investigator at the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. Aideen talks…

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What could a future heatwave on the island of Ireland look like? A heatwave reaching 38°C is plausible. This particular heatwave is set in 2056 in a world approaching 2.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Analysis: @climatecocentre.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Better science needs better shared infrastructure. Our CBW-Data Space & Computing Engine project is building a federated platform to catalogue climate data and connect researchers to high-performance computing — co-designed with ICHEC & NI-HPC.

CBW-Data Space and Computing Engine - Climate Co Centre

This project is building a federated digital platform called the Climate + Biodiversity + Water Data Space (CBW-Data Space).

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✨ Meet our researchers: Dr James Carruthers A @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @climatecocentre.bsky.social Research Associate studying how climate change is reshaping rainfall and extreme weather in the UK and Ireland. Get to know James 👇 climatecocentre.org/people/james...