Our work
EJNI’s aim is to support communities and individuals that are engaged in both promoting environmental justice and challenging environmental injustice through enhancing knowledge about complex environmental and legal issues that exist on the island of Ireland.
What we do at EJNI
We are a collaborative network that brings together researchers, community groups, legal professionals, environmental activists, and policymakers across the island of Ireland. Our primary mission is to promote environmental justice, particularly focusing on the intersection of environmental issues, inequality, and human rights.
Linking the Irish Environment
Promoting all-island cooperation to respond to shared environmental challenges, risks, and opportunities.
Environmental Democracy
Enhancing climate democracy to deliver a just transition and ensuring legal obligations on climate governance and access to justice are met.
Justice, Rights and Nature
Advocating for a rights-based approach to the protection of nature for the benefit of current and future generations.
All-Island Strategic Legal Exchange
Using the transformative power of the law to address the root causes of environmental and social injustice on the island of Ireland.
