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This calendar showcases a selection of news and events submitted by members of the community.
February 20, 2026
EJNI Submission to Consultation on Ireland’s Clean Air Strategy (CAS)
EJNI submitted a response to the @deptcee.bsky.social consultation on Ireland's Clean Air Strategy (CAS). Deadline⏰: 20th of February midnight Access our response here 📖: https://ejni.net/publications/updating-irelands-clean-air-strategy-2025/
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February 19, 2026
Women Engage for a Common Future: The link between Gender and Energy Poverty
WECF invites you to our Webinar 19 February: The link between Gender and Energy Poverty! This webinar aims to inform CSOs and activist groups about the key interlinkages, upcoming EU policy moments, and citizen-led best practices. This webinar is part of the Funding Fairer Futures project. Find here more information about WECF's awareness raising activities, contributing to the Housing and Fair Energy...
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By: Women Engage for a Common Future
Location: Online
Time: 11am-12.30pm CET
February 20, 2026
Energy Security and Just Transition
You are invited to an online conference addressing the role of human rights in shaping energy policies and ensuring a fair and inclusive energy transition. The event will bring together experts from European institutions and civil society organisations to discuss legal and policy perspectives on energy security, environmental protection and public participation. This conference...
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By: Justice and Environment
Location: Zoom/Online
Time: 09:30–12:00 CET
March 9, 2026
Who Shapes our World? Women in Climate science, activism and the law
Get ready to help us celebrate International Women's Day with our Beacon Lecture speaker Maria O'Loan - it's going to be inspiring! The Athena Swan Committee of QUB School of the Built and Natural Environment invite you to join us at our annual Beacon Lecture to celebrate International Women's Day 2026: ‘Who Shapes the...
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By: Athena Swan Committee of QUB School of the Built and Natural Environment
Location: Queen's University David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast.
Time: 12.15pm
February 3, 2026
Preparing for the Clean Air Strategy Consultation - A Centre of Environmental Justice Webinar
Public consultation on updating the clean air strategy is open until 20 February. The Clean Air Strategy was first published in 2023 to establish the priorities and policy framework to deliver air quality improvements. Following the publication of two progress reports, the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment is seeking feedback on the...
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By: Community Law and Mediation
Location: Zoom
Time: 12pm
March 18, 2026
DRAFT NATURE RECOVERY STRATEGY
Nature is in decline across the world and DAERA has a duty to publish a Biodiversity Strategy to help the conservation of biodiversity in Northern Ireland. This draft Nature Recovery Strategy (which is the Biodiversity Strategy required by legislation) sets out how we intend to meet international and national ambitions in Northern Ireland. The...
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By: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
February 20, 2026
Public Consultation on Updating Ireland's Clean Air Strategy
The air we breathe is fundamental to our health, our environment, and our quality of life. In Ireland, while our air quality generally compares favourably with many of our European neighbours, we still face challenges. These include localised issues in urban areas as well as meeting the stringent health-based targets set by the World...
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By: Department of Climate, Energy and Environment
March 12, 2026
European Commission Call for Evidence on the Update of the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action
The objective of the consultation is to deliver input to the impact assessment supporting the revision of the Governance Regulation, as well as to provide stakeholders and the public with an opportunity to express their views on, and share their experience with, the functioning of the Governance Regulation. The consultation will contribute to transparency...
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By: European Commission
February 4, 2026
IOLN Training Links: Planning Campaigns and Advocacy Webinar
Advoacy and campaigns workshop for IOLN members. IOLN have teamed up with Leave No Trace Ireland and The Wheel for a practical workshop to help our Members build impactful campaigns.
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By: Irish Ocean Literacy Network
Location: Online
Time: 11am-1pm
January 27, 2026
Healthy Aging, Healthy Planet Webinar
BOLD Climate Action, a group of older people concerned with climate issues, are organising a series of Webinars entitled Healthy Aging-Healthy Planet. We are doing this in partnership with Irish Doctors for the Environment. First of the series "Active Travel and Public Transport - The Magic Pill?" will take place on the 27th of...
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By: BOLD
Location: Online/ Zoom
Time: 11am
January 20, 2026
Climate Justice before the Courts - Ireland, Switzerland, and the Pacific Island
On January 27th and 28th the Irish High Court will hear a challenge to Ireland’s Climate Action Plan 2024 brought by a grandfather, a youth climate activist, and a child represented by their parent. The applicants are joined in this action by Community Law and Mediation, acting as a client for the first time in our 50-year...
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By: Community Law & Mediation
Location: Online
Time: 9am-10am
December 17, 2025
Free Lough Neagh
Towards a Just Settlement for Lough Neagh Exactly 2 years ago, after a year of devastating algal blooms, we gathered in the MAC, Belfast, to talk about Crimes Against Lough Neagh. At that event we collectively wrote a series of demands. These demands have set the agenda for our work on the Lough and are...
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By: 10 Exchange Street
Location: The MAC10 Exchange StreetWest BT1 2NJ
Time: 1pm - 5pm
November 18, 2025
Stop Climate Chaos COP30 Webinar- Live from Belém
Join the Stop Climate Chaos Webinar to get updates from the COP30 negotiations in Belém. Hear from our members and partners and their analysis of the negotiations so far. This COP has been dubbed the people’s COP, so how can we understand this in the context of human rights, climate policy, justice and peace...
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By: Stop Climate Chaos
Location: Online
Time: 7pm
November 24, 2025
Building Climate Justice Communities
Feminist Communities for Climate Justice invites you to our final webinar focusing on empowering communities to take climate justice action Organising and leading a climate action project can be daunting. The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ) project has developed two toolkits that can be used to build understanding of climate change, and to...
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By: National Women's Council
Location: Online
Time: 1pm
November 15, 2025
National Climate Demonstration
On November 15th, the world rises against Fossil Power. From every corner of the globe, people will flood the streets to demand an end to the era of fossil fuels. COP30 in Brazil must be a turning point — in the heart of the Amazon, where indigenous communities are clinging on to protect one of...
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By: Stop Climate Chaos
Location: Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
Time: 1pm
November 17, 2025
Regression, Non-Regression and Conflict of Interest: The role of the Aarhus Convention in Climate Law and Policy Accountability
A series of side events will be organised on the margins of the eighth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention from the 17th - 21st of November. The side events will cover a wide range of important topics. Their informal setting will allow participants to share diverse experiences related...
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By: EJNI
Location: Online or In person Geneva, United Nations Building Room H.207-209, Building H, Palais Des Nations
Time: 12.30pm
November 13, 2025
Achieving Climate Justice Through Litigation and People Power
Join Community Law and Mediation's Centre for Environmental Justice in Tailor's Hall on Thursday 13th November at 6pm, to discuss the role of litigation in achieving climate justice. We will discuss challenges in navigating the legal process and how they can be overcome, and how people power is essential to ensuring that legal action...
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By: Community Law and Mediation oin Community Law and Mediation's Centre for Environmental Justice in Tailor's Hall on Thursday 13th November at 6pm, to discuss the role of litigation in achieving climate justice. We will discuss challenges in navigating the legal process and how they can be overcome, and how people power is essential to ensuring that legal action is effective. CLM is delighted to be joined by former President of Ireland, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and a panel of those taking legal action and building people power to win climate justice in Ireland. Our panelists include: Justine Schoenfeld-Quinn, CLM's Centre for Environmental Justice Judy Osborne, Friends of the Irish Environment Mohammad Naeem, former UN youth representative for Ireland and An Taisce Climate Ambassador Phil Kearney, Grandfather, climate activist, concerned citizen
Location: Tailors Hall8 Back LaneD08 X2A3 Dublin 8 Ireland
Time: 6pm-8pm
Film screening: Esther and the Law, Irish Première followed by Special Guests Q&A
A Movies That Matter official selection, Tatiana Scheltema’s Esther & the Law: the case against Shell profiles Esther Kiobel’s dramatic court case against Shell at the Hague. Kiobel accused Shell of complicity in the murder of her husband Dr Barinem Kiobel, one of the “Ogoni Nine” executed by the then-military dictatorship in Nigeria for...
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By: Maynooth University
Location: Maynooth University, Phoenix Boardroom (second floor).
Time: 13.30
October 20, 2025
Feeding Change: Healthy Affordable and Sustainable Food for All
Join Feminist Communities for Climate Justice for a webinar exploring the forms of food poverty in Ireland – and how we might eliminate it.
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By: Feminist Communities for Climate Justice
Location: Online webinar
Time: 1pm-2pm
October 9, 2025
Recording: Responding to Ireland's Social Climate Plan Consultation
The Department of Climate, Energy, and the Environment is currently holding a public consultation on the development of Ireland's Social Climate Plan. The consultation is open until October 23rd. Available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environment/consultations/consultation-on-the-development-of-irelands-social-climate-plan/ EJNI held an upcoming webinar where we presented and discussed our response to the Department’s consultation on the SCP. We hope this...
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By: EJNI
Location: Online - Zoom
Time: 10am-11am
October 22, 2025
Mentoring for Youth Environmental Action
Join ECO-UNESCO for an engaging and inspiring evening open to anyone interested in supporting young people to take environmental action; teachers, youth workers, educators, community leaders, or anyone passionate about sustainability and youth empowerment. Through the Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA) programme, we’ll explore how mentoring can help young people design, lead and deliver impactful...
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By: ECO-UNESCO
Location: The Barn at An Creagán186 Barony Road Creggan BT79 9AB
Time: 5pm-7.30pm
November 7, 2025
Irish Ocean Literacy Network, Regional Meeting: Cross-Border Collaboration for Ocean Literacy
Join the Irish Ocean Literacy Network in Belfast to explore the role and challenges of cross-border collaboration for ocean literacy. This event will bring together representatives from across the marine and maritime sectors including arts, heritage, grassroots groups, research, NGOs, industry, and tourism, to explore how ocean literacy can be strengthened in practice and...
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By: Irish Ocean Literacy Network
Location: Europa Hotel, Belfast
Time: 10.00
September 18, 2025
Fair Share or Falling Short?: Opposing loopholes and demanding justice in Ireland's approach to climate action
During our webinar on 18th September we’ll bring you up to speed with what’s happening and provide some guidance on what we can each do to push for fair and ambitious climate action. The webinar will include an online letter writing workshop, where you’ll have an opportunity to write to members of the Climate Committee,...
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By: Friends of the Earth and Stop Climate Chaos
Location: Online
Time: 6.30pm
September 30, 2025
Energy for Who? Protest outside Dáil Eireann on 30th September (Kildare Street entrance)
As autumn draws in and the evenings get chilly, the pressure to find the money to pay expensive energy bills is really ramping up. Too many people will have to start making horrible choices - such as between heating and eating. What’s even worse, is that for thousands, energy poverty is a year round issue - it’s...
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By: Friends of the Earth
Location: Dail Eireann, Dublin (Kildare Street Entrance)
Time: 1pm-2pm
October 23, 2025
Survey on the development of Ireland's Social Climate Plan
Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, Darragh O’Brien, recently launched a public consultation on the development of Ireland’s Social Climate Plan. Over the lifetime of the Plan (2026-2032), Ireland can recoup up to 75% of the cost of eligible measures within the Plan (to a maximum of €663 million) from the EU Social...
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By: Department of Climate, Energy and Environment
Time: Closes at 11.59 pm
September 23, 2025
Know Your Rights to Protest
This is an important day for environmental and social justice in Derry, as we launch the Know Your Rights to Protest guide into the increasingly shrinking civic space for environmental and human rights protectors. The launch of this guide is timely given the increasing restrictions on those protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and those attempting to address...
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By: FoENI, EJNI, CAJ and PILS in partnership with Alliance for Choice and Bloody Sunday Trust
Location: Museum of Free Derry55 Glenfada Park Londonderry BT48 9DR
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm
September 2, 2025
Climate Justice and Human Rights...in a changing world order?
Our dialogue will explore the links between the existential climate crisis the world faces, the policy choices driven by powerful lobbies and a changing political culturewhere democracy, rule of law and human rights risk being subordinated to the interests of the few. We aim to replace unsubstantiated opinion, myth anddisinformation with hard evidence and...
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Location: Carlingford
Time: 2 days (September 2nd -3rd)
September 2, 2025
Centering Housing in Climate Action: the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
The EU’s revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive aims to achieve climate neutrality within the built environment sector by 2050 to ensure emissions reductions in alignment with the European Green Deal. The Directive requires member states, including Ireland, to increase retrofitting and to regulate the embodied carbon of buildings for the first time. It...
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By: Community Law and Mediation
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Online
Time: 12pm
September 3, 2025
Methane, Money & Metrics: How Big Ag is shaping South America's livestock climate policies
New research reveals a coordinated plan by agribusiness to influence climate policies in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina. The goal: to change how the impact of livestock farming is calculated using the GWP* metric. Join us to hear about why this is problematic, unpack the science behind GWP* and how it can be used,...
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By: Changing Markets
Location: Online
Time: 3pm
June 21, 2025
Recording: Demystifying the cost of environmental justice on the island of Ireland
This half-day conference explored the ‘cost’ of environmental justice on the island of Ireland from two angles (i) what are the financial costs for citizens and NGOs who pursue environmental justice through the legal systems and how can we develop our understanding of the rules around costs in both jurisdictions? (ii) what sources of...
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By: Environmental Justice Network Ireland, Comhshaol The Climate Bar Association, the PILS project, Queens University Belfast
Time: 12.00pm - 5.00pm
October 8, 2025
Public Consultation on Northern Ireland's draft Climate Action Plan 2023-2027
In 2022, Northern Ireland passed its first climate legislation. The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (the Act) sets an ambitious target to reduce Northern Ireland’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050. This means by 2050 that we must remove at least as many emissions from our atmosphere as we produce...
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By: DAERA
Location: Online
Time: Closes at 11.59 pm
July 24, 2025
Public Consultation on the proposed Nutrients Action Programme for 2026-2029
The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a public consultation on the review of the Nutrients Action Programme (NAP) (2019) and seeks feedback on the proposed NAP for 2026 – 2029. The aim of the Nutrients Action Programme (NAP) is to improve water quality and the wider environment by reducing...
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By: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Location: Online
Time: closes 11.59
June 23, 2025
Recording: Monitoring post-Brexit environmental divergence on the Island of Ireland: The role of civil society
Recent studies have clearly articulated that a key threat posed by Brexit for environmental governance on the island of Ireland is divergence in environmental regulation. This divergence can occur across a range of axes such as legal rules or technical divergence on paper, implementation divergence in practice, policy divergence, social divergence resulting in different...
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By: EJNI, IEN & NIEL
Location: Online
Time: 11:00- 12:00
March 20, 2025
Recording: Shaping a Fair and Inclusive Social Climate Plan for Ireland
We are delighted to invite you to the second webinar in our series on the development of Ireland’s Social Climate Plan, hosted by the Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI). Following our first webinar introducing Ireland’s Social Climate Plan and what it means for Ireland, this second session will focus on practical policy solutions to ensure a fair and effective transition for those most affected by rising...
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By: EJNI
Location: Zoom
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
June 24, 2025
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) Research Launch: 'The Environment, Human Rights and the Windsor Framework'
Agenda 10:30 Registration and coffee 11:00 Welcome – Dr David Russell, Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission 11:05 Opening Remarks – Helen Henderson, Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission 11:15 Presentation of research findings Dr Ciara Brennan, Director, Environmental Justice Network Ireland; Dr Mary Dobbs, Associate Professor, Maynooth University; Alison Hough BL, Senior...
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By: NIHRC
Location: Belfast (Europa Hotel)
Time: 10:30 - 13:00
July 17, 2025
Protecting Pollinators: Have far will new UK bans on neonicotinoids go towards reviving pollinator populations?
What prospect for boosting pollinator numbers in the UK and transitioning towards more sustainable farming methods under a new Labour government? Emma Hardy MP, the UK government’s Minister for Water and Flooding, has stated that: “Britain is currently one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. This government is committed to protecting bees...
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By: NIEL
Location: Online
Time: 9:30am – 1:00pm
EJNI events
A selection of upcoming and previous events organised by Environmental Justice Network Ireland.
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Event date: June 24, 2025
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) Research Launch: 'The Environment, Human Rights and the Windsor Framework'
By: NIHRC
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Event date: June 21, 2025
Recording: Demystifying the cost of environmental justice on the island of Ireland
By: Environmental Justice Network Ireland, Comhshaol The Climate Bar Association, the PILS project, Queens University Belfast
Time: 12.00pm - 5.00pm
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Event date: March 20, 2025
Recording: Shaping a Fair and Inclusive Social Climate Plan for Ireland
By: EJNI
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Event date: October 9, 2025
Recording: Responding to Ireland's Social Climate Plan Consultation
By: EJNI
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Event date: November 17, 2025
Regression, Non-Regression and Conflict of Interest: The role of the Aarhus Convention in Climate Law and Policy Accountability
By: EJNI
Venue: Online or In person Geneva, United Nations Building Room H.207-209, Building H, Palais Des Nations
Time: 12.30pm
Cost: Free Online
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