Submissions

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…

Thanks to our contributing members Jack O’Sullivan and Alison Hough for you excellent contributions to this submission!

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…

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…

Submission by ZWAI to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in Response to the Department’s Public Consultation on Draft Proposed Additional Measures for Ireland’s Fifth Nitrates Action Programme (NAP). Thanks to our members Sara Guigui and Jack O’Sullivan for all your efforts in preparing and sending this last minute submission! Without the dedication…

We are proud to introduce one of our best submissions yet, which was a collaborative effort with the Waterford Environmental Forum (WEF), inresponse to the public consultation by the Department of Transport on the 21st August 2024. Thank you to everyone involved in contributing! You can check out the great work that WEF are doing…

Thanks to all our members who contributed to this important submission on the 18th of July 2024. These members include Jack O’Sullivan, Luke Fagan, Nazia Naheed Husain and Cormac Forlot. Read or download the full submission below:

Read below our submission in response to the Draft Update of Ireland’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) which was open for public consultation in its final phase in June 2024. Thanks to our contributing members who worked hard on this submission: Jack O’Sullivan, Sara Borkent, Alison Hough, Orla Coutin Fitzsimons and Beatrix Urban. 👏 👏 👏 

Submission on the evaluation of the Nitrates Directive (91 / 676 / EEC) on protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources.

Our first submission to bring in the new year! Regulations now require urgent and major revision in response to findings by the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (ACCC) of non-compliances by Ireland. Thanks to our contributing members! Read our submission below, sent to DECC on the 8th of January 2024.

Revision of Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC on End-of-Life Vehicles, submission sent on the 4th of December 2023. Thanks to all our contributing members!