Resources
2025
Submission to EU Commission on a New Policy Initiative and a New Agenda for Cities and Urban Areas
This submission was researched and written by Olena Larionova (ZWAI member),Cormac Forlot (ZWAI member) and Jack O’Sullivan (ZWAI founder and Vice-chair); with additional material by Orla Coutin Fitzsimons (ZWAI Staff) and Pamela Bartley (ZWAI member), and further research and final editing by Jack O’Sullivan. Thanks are due to Dalia Smelstoriūtė-O’Sullivan for assisting with formatting of…
Submission on Proposed EU Carbon Accounting Amendments for the LULUCF Sector
Thanks to our members Myrtille Coutin Fitzsimons, Nazia Naheed Husain and Jack O’Sullivan for your contributions to our recent submission to the European Commission on Proposed Draft Amendments to Delegated Regulation(EU) 2019/1122 for Carbon Accounting in the EU Registry under Regulation (EU) 2018/841 for the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Sector. Read…
Consultation on a Proposed Dalradian Gold Mine Project in the Sperrin Mountains, County Tyrone
Thanks to our contributing members Jack O’Sullivan and Alison Hough for you excellent contributions to this submission!
Aarhus Convention National Implementation Report 2025
Submission by ZWAI to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, in Response to the Public Consultation on the Aarhus Convention National Implementation Report 2025. Special thanks to our members Sara Guigui, Jack O’Sullivan, Alison Hough and Patrick Meighan for your invaluable contributions, without your efforts this submission wouldn’t exist! Editing by Sara Guigui…
Ireland’s Food System: Is it Wasteful?
Thank you to Deirdre Murray in the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for hosting us and for facilitating an interesting and hopefully impactful discussion! Presentation by Orla Coutin Fitzsimons and Jack O’Sullivan
EU Oceans Pact – Submission by ZWAI
18th February 2025 Our first submission of 2025 to the EU Oceans Pact emphasises the fundamental role of the ocean in sustaining life on our planet. As Arthur C. Clarke astutely observed, “how inappropriate [it is] to call this planet Earth when clearly it is Ocean.” This perspective aligns with James Lovelock’s vision in Gaia…
