Ireland's first carbon budget was supposed to be easy to meet while policy geared up to deliver CB2. Even though 2026 EPA Prov. report suggested CB1 achievement, 3 key caveats: 1. Carbon losses due to 2 big storms not include; 2. Sci. updates eased target 3. Electricity imports are zero emissions.

Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · 11h ago

Some thoughts on whether Ireland did meet CB1, the first five-year carbon budget as claimed: the serious CB1 caveats required and why meeting CB2 is the real test of Ireland's past & upcoming Climate Action Plans. (I also posted this on LinkedIn.) climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/did-ireland-...

Some thoughts on whether Ireland did meet CB1, the first five-year carbon budget as claimed: the serious CB1 caveats required and why meeting CB2 is the real test of Ireland's past & upcoming Climate Action Plans. (I also posted this on LinkedIn.) climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/did-ireland-...

Did Ireland meet Carbon Budget 1? Some key caveats and why CB2 is the real policy test

In July EPA issued its report on Ireland’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2025, stating that the first statutory five-year carbon budget (CB1) of 295 MtCO2e, covering 2021–2025 had been met...

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‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp

Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy

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[Note the shout out for the excellent Prof. @hannahdaly.ie here in IE! 👏👏]

The Point@thepointau.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Why data centre greenwashing is about to explode” by climate analyst, @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Can't stress this too much! Resilience & adaptation should, always complement emission reduction (and not replace, or be the only solution)

Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

A reminder, as adaptation climbs the agenda: Resilience measures should complement, not replace, rapid emissions reductions. Climate policy needs both: adapting to the impacts already here and cutting emissions fast enough to limit the impacts still to come. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/07/euro...

"modern climate obstruction no longer loudly denies global warming, but avoids it entirely, By inflating legitimate local debates into a conspiratorial war against renewable energy, [climate obstructors can do] the political work of the fossil fuel industry without ... taking a dime of their money."

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

Fantastic @alexhannaford.com piece here at @emorwee.bsky.social's Heated - profiling an anti-solar influencer. This is SUCH a common story: a project planned near someone rich, influential, or both and that person gets radicalised against all wind, all solar, all batteries etc

Looking forward to Gas Networks Ireland and all of its fellow European gas-grid operators foregrounding this report in their future PR and reporting. /s

Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org

Darragh O'Brien needs to be asked a direct question: will hyperscale energy consumers like Data Centres (which consume at least 1/4 of all electricity in Ireland) also face price hikes and other measures to offset the burden citizens are being asked to shoulder?

Electricity bills to face fresh hike from October as regulator approves higher network charges

Households will pay around €41 more a year in network charges.

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“Many of our Irish politicians remain convinced that the #climate crisis is not coming for us. I beg to disagree” Another clip from @tonightvmtv.bsky.social a short time ago.

Opinion: With wildfires across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the climate warning signs couldn't be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on action... jrnl.ie/7113635

Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from prepared

With wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.

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[From 2021! Always worth a reminder of the paths repeatedly not followed...] www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-gover...

#IronyOverloadAlert

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

BBC News, "Both terminals at Gatwick airport have run out of water" "It means toilets there can't be flushed and hand washing facilities aren't working"

For years fossil fuel companies argued that gas was a bridge fuel. What they didn't say was that it was a bridge to climate breakdown.

Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org

«the vast majority of AI data centers are the AI bubble’s subprime loans, and will collapse when they face the cold, harsh reality of “someone actually paying money for AI compute,”» @edzitron.com carrying a large portion of the water that will be needed to explain the AI-dumpster fire.

The Subprime Data Center Crisis

Thanks for reading this week’s free Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Friday’s premium newsletter will ask the simple question: Is Oracle dying?  It’s been one year since I launched the premium newslett...

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This 1 hr film on John Maynard Keynes is well worth watching. His equality-based critique of the standard (neoclassical) economics' and typical political fixation on growth & finance, rather than people & balance, is as relevant now as it was nearly 100 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYr...

Keynes: The Secret Architect of the Modern World | FD Finance

YouTube video by FD Finance

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Ann Pettifor@annpettifor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lord Robert Skidrlsky and I comment on Keynes's economic theories and policies in this film.,, open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

'He compared shock at increasingly “unprecedented” wildfires to someone climbing a mountain being surprised each day they had reached a new height. “If they continue climbing, they will almost certainly say exactly the same thing again tomorrow.”' #FossilFuelled www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘The worst possible combination’: what has caused Spain’s deadly wildfires?

Blaze made worse by heat, strong wind and plentiful dry vegetation amid hollowing out of rural population

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I made a film with very talented film makers. It’s in the Galway Film Fleadh. Going to the movies tomorrow morning might feel like poor timing. But seeing this film during the hottest year in recorded human civilisation, isn’t. #Climate #Speirgorm www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/glob...

Global Warning - Galway Film Fleadh

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[Don't think "big challenge ahead" really conveys the situation. The gap between the 2026-2030 GHG budget and even *best case* for current Govt policies is HUGE: about 2 full extra *years* of emissions. #IMHO #FFFG are big on climate rhetoric but lack all credibility on COMMENSURATE delivery...]

Caroline O'Doherty@codohertynews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Small drop in emissions - big challenge ahead. Latest greenhouse gas figures for 2025 from @epaireland.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"If they pass into law, the Strategic Gas Reserve Bill & Passenger Capacity Bill would create a dangerous precedent, allowing the Government to dismantle the Climate Act piece by piece when faced with choices that conflict with its legal obligation to decarbonise." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Opinion: The Government is trying to undermine climate laws. President Connolly could stop it

The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren

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Yesterday @antaisce.bsky.social and @FIE launched a legal challenge to the new judicial review cost caps. These new caps mean, if a member of the public or eNGO wins their case, they will still have to pay tens of thousands to correct the mistake by the State. www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Environmental groups launch legal challenge against new regulations that severely restrict access to justice

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

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Get out the canoe – climate adaptation Canadian-style. (My sister's Canada Day photo from downtown Ottawa at Gladstone and Bronson.)

As someone who works alone and doesn't have any other 'departments', it's wild to see how long it has taken for companies with dedicated managers, accounts and IT staff to realize it will cost you big time to switch from something that requires a laptop to something requires a *fucking data centre*.

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @josephcox.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Ireland facing €13 billion bill for ambition to fail on climate targets - quite a headline for day one of Ireland's EU Presidency - hard for Minister to dismiss fiscal watchdog as "environmental fundamentalists" #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Ireland faces €13bn annual bill by 2050 for missing climate targets

Congestion charges and distance-based road charges recommended by State’s fiscal watchdog

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Canada Day, so: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf...

Canadian, Please | gunnarolla & Julia Bentley

YouTube video by gunnarolla

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Plans, plans, more plans & not enough action. 'We need to move from talking & planning, to seeing evidence-based action on the ground. Until we do that, our waterbodies will continue to disimprove.. Clean water is the essence of life, it’s time to treat it like the critical resource that it is. '

Sustainable Water Network (SWAN)@swanireland.ie · last mo.

SWAN's Dr. Puneeta Sreenivas and Dr. Elaine McGoff after presenting at a Joint Oireachtas Committee today. Plenty of important points were made, and good debates were had. Watch out for videos!

Well worth listening to all 30 minutes of Frans Timmermans informative and insightful address (followed by Q&A), starting here in the conference video: www.youtube.com/live/78FEoqG...

Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda

YouTube video by VE Studio

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Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last mo.

Currently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.

Timmermans –Compares AI "race" to cold war nuclear risk. –International support for United Nations organisation urgently required for global governance to limit and regulate AI. –Diverting money from social to military spending is a major error that will further undermine EU & MS stability.

Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last mo.

Currently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.

Timmermans: –Energy transition & ETS monies to social crucial. –Big investment in social housing is crucial to transition [Ireland??] –Small farmers are supporting policies not in their own interest. –All politics is redistribution, but has been increasingly from people to capital [=corporations].

Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last mo.

Currently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.

Currently speaking, Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission is starkly laying out how important civil society and NGOs are in defending the EU Nature Restoration law. He says that the opposing omnibus deregulation moves are not going to help business or the EU.

Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last mo.

"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...

At this event, Christopher O'Sullivan, Irish Minister of State for Biodiversity is saying funding farmers to achieve nature restoration is the crucial required policy . BUT he fails to mention that funding farming without changing Ireland's high pollution cattle system just funds more of the same.

Paul Price@swimsure.bsky.social · last mo.

"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...