The Irish Environmental Network

Submitted by Pat Finnegan, GRIAN.
UNFCCC Copenhagen December 2009 IEN report

Submitted by Pat Finnegan, GRIAN.
IEN UNFCCC Barcelona November 2009 report

Submitted by Pat Finnegan, GRIAN.
IEN SB-30 Bonn 2009 report

Feasta & Smart Taxes
14 St Stephen’s Green
Dublin 2
Emer O’Siochru
Tel: 086 8267555
Email: e…@smarttaxes.org

Submission re Regional Planning Guidelines for Greater Dublin Area.
26.3.2010
Chapter 1:
The challenges listed does not include the threat to fossil fuel energy supply and its financial and economic consequences.  The Regional Planning Guidelines should have included considerations of the outcome of the National Renewable [...]

Policy Recommendation by Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability to the Department of Environment
Emer O’Siochru & Dara McHugh
Smart Taxes
9.4.10

Contents

Recommendation on establishing farmers’ rights to waste for anaerobic digestion
Proposed Amendment to Waste Management Bill to support anaerobic digestion for maintenance of rural eco-systems

Recommendation on establishing farmers’ rights to waste for anaerobic digestion [...]

Report of Irish Seal Sanctuary delegate to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation ( NASCO ) 2009 Annual Conference, held this year in Molde, Norway.
The conference was centred this year in the coastal fishing region of the town of Molde where 25% of Norway’s sea fishermen hail from. Delegates and state representatives of [...]

Report on 61st Annual Meeting of International Whaling Commission,
22nd – 26th June 2009, Madeira, Portugal
Report by Irish Seal Sanctary.
The ISS attended, with assistance from IEN, as registered international observer and submitted a well received Opening Statement.
Financial constraints and ongoing need to register independently of NPWS, meant a quick access/exit by economy flights via. Lisbon [...]

CSD-17 May 2009 Report by Feargal and Juliet Duff, IEN
This year, the CSD-17 focused on Agriculture, Land, Rural Development, Drought, Desertification and Africa within the over-riding context of Climate Change.  The chair of CSD-17 was Minister Gerda Verburg of the Netherlands, and to many participants, having a woman chair the commission was seen as [...]

Report by Feasta.
Any NGO going to a UN climate conference in the hope of influencing the outcome is extremely optimistic. In essence, these conferences are two events – a climate ideas trade show and a series of meetings between government ministers, advisers and officials – going on in the same building at the same time. [...]

Report by Molly Walsh,  Friends of the Earth
1. Do you think that FoEI was well-prepared for Poznan?
Process before Poznan
I felt like personally, I was not well enough prepared for Poznan. FOE Ireland had never sent anyone to a COP before so there was no experience within my organisation for me to draw on. Perhaps [...]

Report by Grian
EENGO Bonn SB-28 2008 report-1
The official website for the Bonn sessions can be found at:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/sb28/items/4328.php

CSD-16 Report (Frank Corcoran, An Taisce), May 2008

This year was the review year on the themes of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa. The target of the NGOs was to ensure that sufficient information was disseminated in order to make informed decisions on policy on those areas next year. One of the [...]

Report by Grian
UNFCCC Bangkok 2008 report
The official website for the Bangkok sessions can be found at:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/intersessional/awg-lca_1_and_awg-kp_5/items/4288.php

Bali – Mark Rutledge, Feasta
Guide to getting the best from the COP. I put this together so on the occasion of our next visit that the individual travelling can maximise their time. The whole event can be quite over-whelming and indeed feel like a commercial tradefair on occasion, but it is [...]

Report by An Taisce.
This was a preparatory meeting for the forthcoming June 2008 Conference of the Parties in Riga. The Secretariat was criticised for not having produced all of the preparatory documents for this particular meeting, but they did make the point that their budget had been constrained.
I made enquiries of the Secretariat as [...]

UN CSD-14 New York, May 2006
Delegate: Nicola Creighton
Representing: Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
Brief: to build contacts, interest in and support for the ARREST campaign (for a real review of the EU emissions trading scheme, www.euemissions.org)

Report to EENGO Core Funding Ltd: UN CSD 14, A Review Year
I attended the fourteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14) which opened on Monday the 1st of May and
continued through to the 12th of May 2006, at the UN headquarters in New
York. I attended for the first week only.

Report by Grian
ASSESSMENT: Arguably, the Bali talks (Note1) represent a highly significant, and possibly historic, step forward in the international effort against climate change. Bali’s significance—at least as far as the majority of participants were concerned—is that the conference finally achieved (albeit only after a marathon 40-hour final negotiating session) in delivering on its most [...]

Trip report for visit to COP13, Bali – Mark Rutledge, Feasta
Guide to getting the best from the COP. I put this together so on the occasion of our next visit that the individual travelling can maximise their time. The whole event can be quite over-whelming and indeed feel like a commercial tradefair on occasion, but [...]

Report by Michael Ewing who attended the meeting on behalf of Friends of the Irish Environment.
Part One Mini Conference
‘Opening the Doors to Justice: The Challenge of Strengthening Public Access ’
All the presentations are all available at: http://www.unece.org/env/pp/a.to.j.htm
The first day of the meeting took the form of a ‘mini-conference’ with presentations by a number of [...]

Report by Grian.
UNFCCC held a special session in Vienna, Austria between Monday Aug 27th- and Friday August 31st 2007 to conclude the fourth and final session of the Dialogue on Longterm Co-operation (Dialogue track, as mandated in Montreal in 2005) and to hold the first part of a two part session of the AdHoc Working [...]

Report by Nicola Creighton, Feasta (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability)

I attended the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn for three days (14-17 May) of the second week of the meeting, my brief being to glean information on the views held by various parties on the EU-ETS as it prepares to enter its second phase [...]

CSD-15 Report, May 2007 (Frank Corcoran, An Taisce)

CSD-15 was the policy session for energy, industrial development, climate change and air pollution/atmosphere. CSD-14, the review year, had failed to analyse the costs of nuclear energy. The chair of CSD-15 was from Quatar, and at one stage referred to gas as a renewable energy. The EU [...]

Report by Grian
SB 26 and AWG 3 adopted over two dozen conclusions, as well as completing text for several draft decisions due to be forwarded to CP-13/CMP-3 in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007.
SBSTA adopted conclusions and/or decisions on several important issues such as the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, [...]

Report on CSD 14
The Commission on Sustainable Development meets for two weeks every year in order to implement the outcomes of UNCED Rio 1992. Since 2004 it meets in two-year cycles to consider thematic strategies. The first year is the review year and the second, the policy year. The 2006/7 cycle is on Climate Change, [...]

Aarhus Working Group of Parties, April 2006
Report on the Working Group of the Parties, Geneva, 5th-7th April, 2006.
From Michael Ewing, representing Friends of the Irish Environment.

UNEP Biodiversity meeting February 2006
Report on meeting on Issue-Based Modules for the coherent implementation of biodiversity conventions
Regional Workshop for Europe, Croatia 20-21 February 2006
Attended by Karin Dubsky Coastwatch

Report from the 1st Meeting of the Aarhus Task Force on Access to Justice (ATJ) on 16th and 17th February 2006, Geneva.
Parties
America, Austria Azerbajan, Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Humgary, Kazakhstan, Moldovo, Norway, Sweden, Tadjikistan, UK and the E.C.