Our encampment.

'Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to [carbon capture and storage] that never took place'

Selling emissions credits for reductions that never happened from a technology that doesn't work (and pocketing the profits) must be peak greenwashing

ft.com/content/93938a…

Outside Trinity College Dublin - Saturday 4th May 2024 - speech by Rory ⁦Academia for Palestine TCD⁩

Seamus Heaney pointed to an ecological spirituality that is furiously tender to the earth – The Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Evacuations ordered, homes damaged in Texas as rivers surge to Hurricane Harvey levels. And more rain is on the way

By Mary Gilbert, CNN
Prof. Peter Strachan
Dr.Salahideen Alhaj 🔸SDGs Gender Statistics

cnn.com/2024/05/03/wea…

Why we love our GLAS community gardens.

Read more via globalactionplan.ie/blogs/glas-tu-…

Fingal Community Development Office Fingal County Council TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath TU Dublin Blanchardstown TU Dublin Sustainability / Inbhuanaitheacht

#May4thBeWithYou !!!

'As the atmosphere warms, it increases the water holding capacity and we expect heavy rainfall events to increase.'

-Prof Conor Murphy ICARUS Maynooth Maynooth Geography

#ClimateChange

farmersjournal.ie/news/news/by-d…

30/36. After 2hrs of discussion 🤯, Co-Chair, Jean-Christophe Donnellier, was able to adopt the decision for the dates of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th meetings of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund. They are:

2⃣nd Meeting: Jul 9-12

3⃣rd Meeting:: 15-19 Sept

4⃣th Meeting: 2-5 Dec

28/36. Alongside others, the Board member for Norway 🇳🇴, Georg Børsting stressed the importance of having a work plan for 2024 decided at the second meeting of the Board to ensure the Board could meet this year's important milestones and deadlines.

24/36. $400 billion USD is need each year to address economic #LossAndDamage alone in developing countries. The pledges made at #COP28 cover only 0.2% of the needs of developing countries and less than 1% of what they have indicated that they expect—which is $100bn a year.

13/36. Importantly the adopted decision references the World Bank saying that it is “willing to be flexible to accommodate the needs of the Fund with regards to direct access”. This will allow the Board to hold the Bank to account on delivering this crucial aspect of the Fund.

1/36. 📜 It is the third and final day of the first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund in Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪. As the dust settles on the first meeting, here are some of our key takeaways 🤔 from today's discussions and some and some initial reflections. 🧵

NB Rachel Donald: '...neither data itself nor data visualisations are politically neutral. Data reflects power relations, special interests and ideologies in terms of which data is collected, what data is used and how it is used.'

Extremely proud:

ScholarGPS has ranked my work as number 15 worldwide in Biofuels in company of Bruce Dale (Michigan State), Jack Sadler (UBC) and Andre Faaij (Groningen)

Science Foundation Ireland SEAI EPA Ireland UCC Ireland UCC IrelandResearch John F. Cryan John O'Halloran Prof. Sarah Culloty
scholargps.com/scholars/87025…

Trying again: does anyone work on/research the politics of gendered language? Especially use of ways to designate gender neutral words in French and German (like * or /)? Anyone? Porfa…

Climate change / heat wave dynamics are scary:
The Asian/SE Asian heat wave is now being called the
'most extreme climate event in history'.

cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave…

Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Extinction Rebellion Global

Details of the designated sites for offshore wind farms off Waterford & Wexford. Tonn Nua will be first to be developed. Auction to select developer pencilled in for autumn

This #PoetryDayIRL I share a poem on #rivers of home and my little stream of home. These special places we treasure and must conserve. 🌊🏞🏡

6. The Destruction of Tyre (1840)

Martin conjured supernatural storms to dramatize Biblical events. Here, vengeance against the Phoenician city of Tyre came not as a siege, but as a mighty tempest.