Are Northern Ireland's environmental policies sustainable or a load of rubbish? This week we explore the gap between our #climate goals and the reality while looking at ideas for the future 🌍
Environment In Focus 👇
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Viewpoint: Kicking off a week-long series focusing on the climate crisis and how it affects Northern Ireland. #climateni #greenweek
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Invasion will be an environmental disaster for both Ukraine and rest of world, writes John Breslin
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.@FrankieHargan talks to @edwinpootsmla about juggling the demands of both the environment and agriculture #climateni #greenweek
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"Climate action will be one of the defining issues in the upcoming Stormont elections in May," @rosalindskillen believes
#AE22 #climateni #greenweek
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Meet the 92-year-old Belfast nun standing up for the planet 🌎 👇
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"I got Google Maps out, clocked up all our miles, looked at things like the average Co2 emission per vehicle, the number of people we take to games and things like that" 🏉
✍️@JBradleyBT
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We meet five women working to promote environmental awareness in Northern Ireland
#IWD2022 #greenweek
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Is Northern Ireland becoming the dirty corner of Europe? @ClaireMcBelfast talks to @foe_ni to find out
#greenweek
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Ever wondered how the contents of your blue bin are recycled? @SJAMcBride finds out 👇
#recycling
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📹@ColmOR_SL_BT takes us inside a noisy Northern Ireland recycling plant where blue bin waste is sorted
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Would you go #vegan for a week? @aineltoner did and here's how it went 👇
#greenweek #plantbased
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The failed RHI scheme will hang over Stormont’s efforts to decarbonise Northern Ireland for years to come
✍: @SJAMcBride
#renewableenergy
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“We are not beat in the climate change battle, but we must act now”, urges @rosalindskillen
#climatechange
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We list six eco-friendly activities to help kids learn to re-use household and garden items
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#greenweek #climateni
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From plastic free toothbrushes to reusable makeup remover pads, @ClaireMcBelfast shows how you can make eco-friendly choices in your home
#sustainableliving #greenweek
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What are the eco-friendly actions we take that turn out to be at best ineffective, and at worst counterproductive?
✍ @AndrewEMadden
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.@louiseinNI talks to the Co Londonderry woman who has raised £12,000 for stillbirth awareness charity @KicksCount by collecting rubbish that would have normally gone to landfill
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How GAA clubs like Lamh Dhearg are savouring their role in Green Club Programme
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What is the cost of going green for homeowners... and how long it could take to get your money back
✍ @ClaireMcBelfast
#climateni
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“We get a lot of people who say, ‘Oh, this reminds me of the scoop shops’, and we say to people, it was not a new idea. It is a new version of an old idea.” @aineltoner speaks to the owners of Refill Quarter
#sustainableliving
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Green is the new black: the rise of eco funerals ⚰
Northern Ireland stands alone in these islands as the only place that doesn’t have a designed Natural Burial Site 👇
#greenweek #sustainable
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Is it a myth that environmentally friendly and organic food products cost more? And are electric cars a viable answer to traffic pollution? 👇
#climateni
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North West cricketers take on ‘responsibility’ of climate action as sport most vulnerable to change 🏏
#ClimateAction
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Meet the cycling Culcavy mum doing the school run on two wheels after ditching her car 🚲🚲🚲
#ebikes #onyourbike
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Green Party leader @ClareBaileyGPNI accuses the DUP, Sinn Fein, SDLP and Ulster Unionists of “speaking out of both sides of their mouths” on #climatechange. She speaks to @SuzyJourno ahead of her party’s annual conference in Belfast
#climatebill 🌍
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.@AndrewEMadden looks at pollution levels in Northern Ireland. Pollution is down in recent years, but transport is still a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions 👇
#pollution
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From Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to #BluePlanet, environmentalism info is just a click away. But do shows make a difference? Do they change people’s behaviour after they switch off? 🖥 🌏
✍ @Halliday_G
#greenweek #climateni
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About 43% of Belfast households still can’t get their glass collected. It is a stark illustration of how far we have to go on reuse of resources ♻️
✍ @SJAMcBride
#recycling
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Around 15% of our total carbon emissions come from heating our homes, so making small changes to our everyday life can go a long way to reducing our overall carbon footprint — and our bills 🏠 🌍
✍ @cochrane_amy
#Sustainability #carbonfootprint
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The Waste Warriors play their part in protecting the environment and have set an example to their local community by taking part in litter picks, recycling properly and shopping more sustainably 🚮💚
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Which are the greenest 🌇 on 🌍?
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"Take yourself to a world where you’re never stuck in traffic, where the air is cleaner, where you exercise and get fitter and where our children are safer playing on the streets."
✍ @SportsOrla
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#climateni #greenweek
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