Green and clean. How can local government deliver services and engage citizens for a more sustainable future and a cooler climate?
In 2017, an increasingly pervasive worry was defined for the first time by the American Psychological Association as ‘eco-anxiety’: “a chronic fear of environmental doom”. This briefing will investigate the rise of this phenomenon across the world and explore the ways in which local governments can both become more environmentally sustainable themselves and help employees…
The second Queen’s Speech of the year provided confirmation of the commitments made in the General Election campaign, as well as a few surprises in the form of reviews and Commissions. Here is what’s relevant for Scottish local government.
The latest in our series of briefings exploring a month in the life of an Irish council. In our last instalment of 2019 we’re looking at the many achievements and innovations of Cork County Council from the month of November 2019. Cork County Council is the largest local authority in the country in terms of…
This think piece from LGiU’s Kim Fellows reflects on the progress being made to address climate change, covering on the developments of COP25, the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow, and the actions that local government and individuals are taking to address climate change where those at the international stage are not.
Richard Kerley writes on the changes that individuals may have to make to address environmental issues if complex, satisfactory solutions are to be achieved, considering a shift to increased electric car usage to illustrate his point.
This briefing outlines the importance of biodiversity and explores what local government can do to protect it, defining what ‘mainstreaming biodiversity’ means. Additionally, national and international examples of ‘mainstreaming biodiversity’ are explored, extracting ways in which issues of biodiversity are being integrated into local government policymaking. This topic may be of particular interest to planning…
Ireland now has a comprehensive and locally-led climate adaptation framework, put in place by local authorities. In this briefing, we discuss the approach to a unified delivery of adaptation across the full extent of Ireland, as well as the background policy environment.
This briefing looks at the most recent initiative on participative democracy in Ireland, The Youth Assembly on Climate Change that sat on 15th November. It marks an initiative that builds upon the ongoing experience with Ireland’s Citizens Assembly as covered in earlier briefings, and has come at a time of unparalleled politicisation of younger people…
In this short paper, we examine an increasing awareness of the positive features of the need to radically address climate change. Drawing upon a growing international awareness, the paper then considers the huge economic potential for Ireland and, highlighting substantive opportunities for the enterprises and communities of the Country.
This short paper provides an overview of presentations given at the Creating Economic and Business Opportunities from Climate Change conference that took place on 9th October in Tullamore. It underpins the idea that embracing a transition to address climate change will improve Ireland’s prospects across regions.