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Lessons from a decade of climate politics in Ireland
Dr Cara Augustenborg (UCD Environmental Policy) reflects on ten years of analysing and assessing Irish governments on their climate and environmental policies and performance in the latest in our Earth Comment series.
Earth Institute journalist in residence scheme 2025 open for applications
Applications are open for our 2025 journalist-in-residence scheme which offers journalists a unique chance to work with top environmental, climate and sustainability researchers at UCD.
About UCD Earth Institute
The UCD Earth Institute fosters multidisciplinary research and works with stakeholders to address global, regional and national environmental challenges.
Based in University College Dublin’s Belfield campus, the Institute is a focal point for UCD’s environmental, climate and sustainability research and is home to state-of-the-art research facilities.
Our community has world-leading and wide-ranging environmental, climate and sustainability research expertise, with over 250 full and associate members is drawn from across UCD’s six constituent Colleges.
The wide range of expertise within the Institute ensures that we can inform and lead policy in focused disciplines and in multidisciplinary topics.
We foster entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and technology commercialisation, while our researchers work directly with commercial partners across a range of industries.
We strive to produce research that makes a demonstrable contribution to society, with our researchers working closely with the communities most affected by their work.