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Title: The Planning Tool Kit for Environmental Protection Location: Tailors’ Hall, Dublin 8 Date: 2009-12-07 Poster: An Taisce Planning Toolkit poster The Planning Tool Kit for Environmental Protection This is a one day event with sessions offering practical information on the development process and how Irish and European planning laws can regulate this to ensure the best outcome for the environment Organised by An Taisce On Monday 7th December in Tailors’ Hall, Dublin 8 Intended [...]
Title: Delivering Appropriate Assessment in Ireland Location: Dublin Date: 2009-12-10 This one day conference aims to bring better understanding of what Appropriate Assessment is and should be in Ireland as well as to answer questions that frequently arise when addressing impacts on the interests of Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation. Government and Professional Standards organisations have joined forces with Ireland’s largest environmental NGO, BirdWatch Ireland, to bring together key players involved in [...]
Title: CHILDERS TO HOST DISCUSSION IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE & AGRICULTURE Location: Room 3G2, ASP Building European Parliament Start Time: 14:25 Date: 2009-11-12 CHILDERS TO HOST DISCUSSION IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE & AGRICULTURE In the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, much attention will focus on the role the agriculture sector will play in meeting new targets to reduce emissions. Nessa Childers MEP has invited [...]
Title: Fragile Web: What Next for Nature? Location: RDS, Dublin Link out: Click here Date: 2009/11/24 Fragile Web: What Next for Nature? In celebration of Darwin200 and to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the RDS is delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Silvertown will be speaking to the RDS on the matter of biodiversity. However, the grim reality is that following the Darwin200 celebrations the [...]
Title: Keeping Cattle: cause or cure for climate crisis? Location: JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin Link out: Click here Start Time: 14:30 Date: 2009-11-07 According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, raising livestock contributes 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in CO2 equivalent terms, if the forest clearance and pasture degradation to which it leads are included. This is a similar amount to the world’s transport sector. Livestock are [...]
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