climate crisis

Supreme Court trashes Irish Government’s climate change plan

07.08.2020

Roger Milne

Climate Change | climate crisis | Ireland | Irish government | irish supreme court

The Irish Republic’s Supreme Court has torpedoed the government’s ‘excessively vague and aspirational’ strategy to combat climate change.

Planning authorities need support to tackle flooding

27.07.2020

Laura Edgar

Local authorities have a ‘critical shortage’ of skills and expertise to address and plan for the climate crisis, according to the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA).

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Spatial planning is key to reducing carbon emissions

27.07.2020

Laura Edgar

The RTPI maintains that spatial planning must play a ‘central role’ in reducing carbon emissions and adapting to changes in the climate.

Irish coalition hits the ground running with first carbon laws

23.07.2020

Roger Milne

The first legislation in the new Irish Government’s drive to decarbonise the economy has been passed by the Dáil and Seanad.

RTPI blog round-up: Conservation measures in the built environment are needed more than ever to fight climate change

03.07.2020

RTPI

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 30 May-3 July, 2020

Promises to protect the environment are going to be 'spectacularly broken’

03.07.2020

Craig Bennett

climate crisis | Environmental | nature | the wildlife trusts | UK

The deregulatory anti-planning ideology runs deep, says Craig Bennett, but the planning system is key to creating beautiful places and giving people access to all that nature has to offer.

Planners are pivotal to sustainable Covid-19 recovery

29.06.2020

Laura Edgar

RTPI president Sue Manns has launched an institute campaign that aims to raise the ‘vital’ awareness of the role planners have in every respect of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.