Monthly Irish Times Column by Hannah Daly - Cost of fossil fuel dependence has never been so high - At a Time of Climate Crisis: We must focus on the value not the cost of change.
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Cost of fossil fuel dependence has never been so high.
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High-impact paper published
24 Jan 2024Decarbonising road freight transport: The role of zero-emission trucks and intangible costs
Dr. Vahid Aryanpur and Dr. Fionn Rogan have published a high-impact paper titled ‘Decarbonising road freight transport: The role of zero-emission trucks and intangible costs.
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‘Why determination is key to unlocking Ireland’s clean energy future’ by Paul Deane.
22 Feb 2024The RDS Vision 300 Series
As part of The RDS Vision 300 series, MaREI's Dr Paul Deane, a Senior Lecturer in Clean Energy Futures at University College Cork spoke about his research and the role of evidence-based determination.
"Moving away from fossil fuels is one of the huge opportunities for Ireland [...], there would be more jobs here, and those would be meaningful jobs that would endure, that would help communities."
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Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Report Volume 2
25 Jan 2024Volume 2 – Achieving climate neutrality by 2050
Volume 2 aims to address achieving climate neutrality by 2050 by investigating and assessing three key areas: mitigation pathways, and what form reducing emissions over time may take; assessing the factors that may constitute and result in a climate neutral society, including energy use, land use and the emissions landscape; and finally, assessing the enablers that may make change possible by building on societal dimensions and investigating policy implications.
Authors include MaREI’s Dr Abhay Menon, Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir, Dr. Paul Deane and MaREI alumni Dr Connor McGookin and Dr. Shane McDonagh.
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Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Report - Volume 4
25 Jan 2024Volume 4 – Realising the benefits of transition and transformation
Volume 4 highlights the benefits, opportunities and synergies that can be achieved through transformation, and how they can be realised. This volume is a state-of-the-knowledge assessment that draws on global synthesis literature, including the IPCC and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), international peer-reviewed and grey literature to identify key characteristics of transformative change. It explores the emergence of these characteristics in the national context. Knowledge gaps are highlighted to inform and enhance research related to transformations in Ireland. This volume aims to aid national policy discussions toward enabling, catalysing and achieving transformative change and associated benefits.
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Jason Mc Guire successfully defends his PhD thesis entitled "Improving Irish energy systems modelling to inform residential policy".
26 Feb 2024Congratulations to (soon to be) Dr. Jason Mc Guire for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled "Improving Irish energy systems modelling to inform residential policy". Very many thanks to:
- PhD funder Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications through our CAPACITY project
- UCC Research, UCC Environmental Research Institute and MaREI for the research support and facilities
Jason has published a paper from his research "Developing decarbonisation pathways in changing TIMES for Irish homes" and several more papers are in the pipeline.
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Vera O'Riordan successfully defend her PhD entitled "Enhanced Modelling of Transport Decarbonisation and Policy Pathways for Ireland",
06 Feb 2024It was an extremely proud day to see Vera O'Riordan successfully defend her PhD entitled "Enhanced Modelling of Transport Decarbonisation and Policy Pathways for Ireland", under the examination of Prof. Jillian Anable and Dr. Richard O'Shea, along with co-supervisors Dr. Fionn Rogan and Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir.
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Analysis from Paul Deane on Ireland’s first Climate Change Assessment
31 Jan 2024Dr. Paul Deane spoke to RTÉ’s Drivetime (Listen here at 53 minutes) about Ireland’s first Climate Change Assessment.
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UCC/SEAI Workshop
02 Feb 2024The Energy Policy and Modelling group at UCC collaborated with SEAI to engage on modelling insights, the future of modelling, climate policy and increasing absorptive capacity. Collaborative report coming soon!
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Energy security in an all-Island context – does worrying electricity generation inadequacy necessitate an all-island focus on energy security
11 Jan 2024Ó Gallachóir heralds the development of the all-island Single Electricity Market (SEM) as one of the “hidden giants” of greater all-island cooperation, 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
In 1995, the North South Electricity Interconnector was restored after almost 20 years of inaction and since then several significant electricity and gas infrastructure projects have been developed on the island, ranging from the commissioning of the Moyle electricity interconnector to Scotland in 2021 to the approval in 2018 of a second North South Interconnector.
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