Irish Bioeconomy Week starts today! At last week's 'Todhchaí Ghorm - Blue Future' event by Nua Mara, >100 people explored marine conservation and the blue economy. We also enjoyed @uniofgalway.bsky.social Carna Research Station's 50th Anniversary and a field trip with the Irish Seaweed Consultancy 🪸

Last week, our Executive Coordinator, Deirdre Lane, joined the Irish Bioeconomy Forum in Tralee. Two key topics for us were the policy innovation toolbox and cluster building. Learn more during Bioeconomy Ireland Week! Join the 13th Oct conference or find other events here: www.irishbioeconomy.ie

🔗 www.naturalcapitalireland.com/calendar ⚓Maritime Tourism & Heritage Conference: 7-8 Oct 📢@biorbic.bsky.social Research Call: 10 Oct Deadline 🌍Climate Action Week: 13-19 Oct 🚜@capnetworkireland.bsky.social Agri-Bioeconomy Conference: 13 Oct 🐟UK & Ireland Lakes Network Conference: 14-15 Oct

At last week's National Ploughing Championships, NCI attended ✨Breaking Ground - Female Leaders in Agriculture✨ The discussion was organised by FLIARA Project & Cormac Tagging, facilitated by Orla Canney, and featured Maura Farrell, Katie Gleeson, Blatnaid Gallagher, and Maria Walsh. More below 🧵

Highlights from 📆 www.naturalcapitalireland.com/calendar 🌳Community Conversations on Nature Restoration: 14 Sep-30 Oct 🌍Climate Conversations: Deadline 22 Sept 👥Community Assembly on Climate Action: 27 Sep, @uniofgalway.bsky.social 🎉Climate Carnival: 29-30 Sept 📢€5M BiOrbic Bioeconomy Research Call

Thank you to CLIMAREST and the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe for the great training course this week, focused on marine ecosystems! Our highlights were the trip to see seagrass at Merrion Strand and the sessions with Diana Pound on inclusive and participatory stakeholder engagement.

Do you have an upcoming event or consultation related to natural resources or ecosystem services? Let us know! Check out our calendar here: www.naturalcapitalireland.com/calendar Our top picks this week: ➡️ www.gov.ie/en/departmen... ➡️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/LPBY2FX ➡️ www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Webinar: Introducing the #NatureBased Enterprise🌿 With surging interest in this emerging sector, #BFBI & the Connecting Nature Enterprises Platform offer an introductory webinar with Isobel Fletcher of #HorizonNua, Aug 20, 12-1pm Register: shorturl.at/04eNx

German policy makers & researchers have identified five factors underpinning successful implementation of the Nature Restoration Regulation at national level #RestoreNature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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“It’s about putting fairness, #sustainability and forward-thinking at the heart of how we govern, allowing the government to break out of short-term policy-­making cycles.” - @rodericogorman.bsky.social

The CSO (Central Statistics Office Ireland) has published #RecreationInNature – How We Spent Summer 2024, the results of a #CSOsurvey on time spent in #nature. The findings will contribute to the development of #EcosystemAccounts which value the benefits nature provides: www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

Why Sustainability Rocks Matters: The Role of Music in Protest In this latest article, Will Oulton, Founder of Sustainability Rocks, explores how music has shaped a century of social and environmental activism. 🔗 Read the article: uksif.org/why-sustaina...

How can we communicate conservation issues without alienating the very people we need to reach? And what happens when a creative professional decides to transform four fields in Wicklow into a biodiversity haven while documenting every step for others to follow? 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/2f76c7

SWAN member Bird Watch Ireland have published the 73 most important areas for seabirds in Ireland. 24 marine sites and 8 of the terrestrial sites are newly identified. They are calling for these IBAs to be designated as Special Protection Areas. Find out more 👇 birdwatchireland.ie/birdwatch-ir...

Textile Exchange is urging fashion brands to adopt #TrueCostAccounting! 💰 Better materials often come at a premium. ⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models." Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...

Greece shuts Acropolis for part of day as heat soars, bans outdoor work reut.rs/45YFatv

#Reminder: The Research Ireland Enterprise Fellowships will remain open for applications until 15th July 2025. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/enterprise-fellowships/

Calling all experts! 📣 The @ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for 2 key workshops in Feb. 2026. This is a crucial opportunity to help shape how diverse knowledge and new methods are used in climate assessments. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 July 2025 Learn more: www.ipcc.ch/2025/06/13/c...

Today is World Seabird Day! We've been monitoring seabirds on the Isle of May for more than 50 years, one of the longest, most comprehensive studies of its kind in the world - so useful for helping us understand changes in our marine environment. 🧵🧪 1/ #WorldSeabirdDay

NCI's Deirdre Lane @theshamrockspring.bsky.social met #MinisterForNature Chris O'Sullivan at Leinster House @oireachtasnews.bsky.social with @npwsireland.bsky.social's Deirdre Lynn & Áinle Ní Bhriain, IEN's Aoife Ní Lochlainn & Fintan Kelly to talk Funding #NatureRestoration ien.ie/funding-natu...

A primary school in Galway city has buzzed away the competition to be crowned national Golden Bee Champion in the 2025 Pollinator Project competition.

Research Ireland is pleased to launch the Innovating in Health and Wellbeing Challenge. A webinar for this Challenge will take place on Thursday, 7th August at 2.00PM. The deadline for applications is 10th October 2025. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/heal...

The Business of Nature Positive at @tcddublin.bluesky.social sees Dr Catherine Farrell and students engage Irish businesses from a broad range of sectors in a groundbreaking #NaturePositive module, with @bizbioirl.bsky.social - the call is open for 2025! businessforbiodiversity.ie/participate-...

Respondents were more worried about climate change in 2024 than in 2023, with increasing concerns regarding perceived harm to other people and future generations. Climate Conversations 2025 open for submissions now. Have your say: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... www.rte.ie/news/weather...

📸 Opening ceremony & keynotes today at the #EcosystemServices Partnership World Conference in Darwin🇦🇺 with a strong focus on indigenous knowledge & real values holding the key to a #sustainable & happy future! #ESPConference #ESP11 #ESP11Darwin

In 'serious omission,' G7 leaders release wildfire charter with no mention of climate change www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/n...

Every second, the world loses the equivalent of 4 football fields of productive land to degradation & desertification. We cannot afford this loss. On #DesertificationAndDroughtDay, here are 7 ways to restore the land that sustains life on Earth: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

🔥Hot off the press: Evidence in Ecosystem Restoration: Insights and Recommendations How can science, local & Indigenous knowledge improve restoration? This brief shares 7 recommendations to strengthen evidence use across all stages. Read: 🔗 bit.ly/3HYwLw1 #DesertificationAndDroughtDay @unep.org

We're having a Cuppa for Climate Breakfast with Patagonia on Sunday, 22nd June! ☕ Walk-ins are welcome. This is following the success of our Cuppa for Climate inspired event on Data Centres at the same Patagonia store in April.

Thanks to all who participated this week as NCI collaborated with Matthew Hornsby & Kelli Howard of the Department of #Climate, Energy and the #Environment for a workshop bringing together stakeholders to discuss #NaturalCapitalAccounting for #NatureRestoration in Ireland #NatCapWorkshop 1/2

Common sunburst lichen - beautiful textures and colours. County Donegal, Ireland.

Did the 2025 Spending Review in the UK underestimate nature's potential for economic renewal? #NaturalCapitalNews| University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

Nature = Health = Wealth #ValueNature #InvestinNature #BoostBiodiversity 💚

Good Wednesday morning Blue Sky's! “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

Nitrates Action Programme and GAP regulations not measuring up to meet our water quality protection needs — An Taisce's Joint Oireachtas Committee Submission on the Coastal Lagoons: Ecology and Restoration Report on Our Lady's Island Lake in Wexford www.antaisce.org/submission-o...

🇺🇸 US insurers are waking up to climate risks — but critical gaps remain. A new Ceres report shows progress — even as federal regulators retreat from climate disclosure rules. 2024 climate-related damages: $182.7bn. 🌪️🔥🌊 GreenCB.co/4kUMhY7

Exec Coordinator Deirdre Lane joined another very positive Irish #BioeconomyForum meeting yesterday, June 10, at @teagasc.bsky.social Food Research Centre with an interactive workshop exploring the benefits of bio-based industries for a more #sustainable economy

The CSO (Central Statistics Office Ireland) has published #RecreationInNature – How We Spent Summer 2024, the results of a #CSOsurvey on time spent in #nature. The findings will contribute to the development of #EcosystemAccounts which value the benefits nature provides: www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

NCI Director Martina von Richter is with the Irish delegation in Nice today for the UN #OceanConference to lend her voice to the importance of #ValuingNature and #marine and #coastal #ecosystems and our #OceanEconomy - here meeting up with Dr Rick Officer, CEO of @MarineInst #UNOC3 #UNOC2025

TNFD publishes updated guidance for marine transportation and fishing industries incm.pub/4jDIjlP

Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert! "The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Survey: Finance ministries worldwide struggling to incorporate climate risk into decisions incm.pub/3HLof3q

🇪🇺 Insurance losses from climate change could become a systemic risk to the wider economy, the @ecb.europa.eu‬ warns in its latest financial stability report. In 2024, natural disasters caused €30bn in economic losses, only €13bn of which was insured. 🌊🔥🌪️ #ClimateRisk #FinancialStability #Insurance

Marine Conservation Pakistan- Indigenous people voices must be amplified in policy making. We have to enforce existing MPA rules first before we continue announcing more in the race for 30x30. This message is being repeated around the world. It's time leader's took notice. @seasatrisk.bsky.social

Have a minute to take a quick survey? We want to see what people think airport emissions are, and how much this is understood by the public! You can take part here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"The more we push the climate system, the bigger the risk and it rises “very, very quickly”, becoming more erratic." - Pro Peter Thorne, Climatologist, Maynooth University www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

NCI Director Martina von Richter will join the Irish delegation to next week’s vital #UNOceanConference - get in touch with us if you are attending to connect #Ocean25 #SaveOurSeas

The ocean forecast is in… and it’s alarming. Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are pushing our ocean to the brink. Protecting it means protecting all life on Earth. Join our #WorldOceanDay call for greater efforts to #SaveOurOcean. www.unep.org/topics/ocean...