Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgUCD College of Engineering & Architecture @ucdengarch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025www.ucd.ie/eacollege/ne... @caugustenborg.bsky.socialucd.ieStaff shortages preventing environmental policy implementation in Ireland, study findsStaff shortages preventing environmental policy implementation in Ireland, study finds 131
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025🌍 New in J. of Environmental Policy & Planning! Our study identifies the 5 biggest, interlinked barriers to environmental policy implementation in Ireland and proposes systematic fixes: Open Access read here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1523... #EnvironmentalPolicy #Ireland #ClimateGovernancedoi.orgBarriers to environmental policy implementation: stakeholder perceptions in the context of IrelandEnvironmental policies are embedded in political institutions worldwide, yet degradation persists, with failure to implement existing policies considered a significant contributing factor. Few stud... 030
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Last night, my fellow Council of State members got to hear one of President Higgins' final speeches. It was particularly emotional taking this photo in front of Irl's first Council of State, noting how times have changed for us ladies in particular! 1133
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Yesterday, we welcomed George Marshall to University College Dublin for Earth Institute's public event on how to talk about climate change. Today, George joins my EPA Ireland project team to launch our Community of Practice Using Worldview to Inspire & Scale Climate Action (UWISCA). 0171
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025For the record, I also had several media coaching sessions with Ivan Yates and it was the best media training I've ever had! Anyone who spent any time with IY knew he ran a business for the last few years doing this, so why is it a surprise to someone who worked with him regularly? 031
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgConor McNally @conormcnally.bsky.social · 31/10/2025An extraordinary omission. Yes, policy is the domain of Gov, but climate is one area where a President, limited though their powers may be, could actually play a significant role, e.g. by mobilising community action and lifting the voices of people affected. 👏 @caugustenborg.bsky.social et al. 1143
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025In honour of President Michael D. Higgins' last few days in the Aras, I popped into Newstalk studio to chat with Ciara Doherty, Gavin Duffy & Tadgh McNally about the President's legacy. How will Michael D Higgin’s Presidency be remembered? | Newstalk www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...newstalk.comHow will Michael D Higgin’s Presidency be remembered? | NewstalkAs Michael D Higgins' time as President of Ireland comes to an end, how will his period in the Á... 010
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025From Dr Cara Augustenborg, @hannahdaly.ie @autofac.bsky.social Prof John Sweeney and others. #ClimateEmergency www.irishtimes.com/environment/...irishtimes.comRTÉ receives formal complaint over ‘exclusion’ of climate issues from presidential debatesLetter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations 22614
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgParents for Future Ireland @pffireland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025We fully agree @caugustenborg.bsky.social . @rte.ie has most especially failed children and young people on this issue. They should know what the next President's views are on the issue which will most shape their collective futures. 021
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgParents for Future Ireland @pffireland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Fully agree. Especially upsetting for young people, especially those voting in their first election, not to see the next President asked about the issue that will most affect their futures. @rte.ie have let them down hugely. 021
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I'm heart broken Ireland's national broadcaster stuck to same old 7 questions tonight on #áras25 presidential debate & avoided the climate question several of us begged them to ask. We learned nothing new of candidates' positions on major global/national challenges. RTE has failed the public. 2549
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Please email primetime@rte.ie to ask them to break the #ClimateSilence & ask the 2 candidates "How will you integrate climate change into your Presidency?” in the last TV debate on Tuesday I've done the research to make this easy @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/clima... #Aras25thejournal.ieClimate expert: We weren't hearing about the candidates' stances on climate action, so I asked them directlyHere’s what Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly said about climate action and what it means for the election, writes Dr Cara Augustenborg. 02110
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I've listened to 3 presidential debates so far & learned nothing on candidates' position on climate. I've even emailed to ask them this & have yet to receive replies. Anyone else feel same? @rte.ie @virginmedianews.bsky.social @heatherhumphries.bsky.social @catherineconnolly.bsky.socialmedia.tenor.coma man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and saying `` anyone ? '' .ALT: a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and saying `` anyone ? '' . 9405
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Just saw Pete Hegseth's ridiculous speech to US military and, for the first time since my father (USAF Colonel) died 5 years ago, I am relieved he is not alive to see what a mockery is being made of the the cause he dedicated his life too. 😔 0214
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This is a good summary of healing words of @barackobama.bsky.social in Dublin last night, but fails to mention what struck me most: #climatechange comprised at least 20% of the conversation & was first issue mentioned as priority for #ObamaFoundation. 💚 #BarackObama www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...rte.ie'Unacceptable' to ignore human crisis in Gaza - ObamaFormer US president Barack Obama has said there is no military rationale right now for continuing to pummel what is already broken in Gaza, and he said it was unacceptable to ignore the human crisis t... 151
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025If you are at the National Ploughing Championship today, come say hello! 060
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025On the 20yr anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina, I dusted off my 2017 blog after my last trip to my former home of NOLA. It still holds up! www.caraaugustenborg.com/latest-news/...caraaugustenborg.comWhat it means to miss New Orleans: An environmentalist’s view growing up below the seaHere's my version of heaven. #NOLA #Brass #Jazz pic.twitter.com/93pvkSxFUZ 030
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Thank you @yurikageyama.bsky.social for a feel good story amid the gloom. I have a bug loving kid here in Ireland, but they seem to be a rare breed here! A culture of bug loving kids sounds like just what the world needs. 🐛🪲🐞 192
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe. 373121454365
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgTara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Good morning! ☀️ We are looking for a researcher (or research team) to support an exciting new report on how clean flexibility solutions can replace fossil gas. More info below 👇 Please share with your networks and/or names of any suitable candidates. Merci! beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor... 0914
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgShauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025🚨2 years after Irish gov launched €15m Shared Island sports club EV charger scheme, none have been fitted. Now a report warns the delays pose a ‘reputational risk’ to government climate initiatives @caugustenborg.bsky.social @irishnews.com @ucddublin.bsky.social www.irishnews.com/news/norther...irishnews.comSports clubs ‘frustrated’ by long delay to EV chargers promised under €15m Shared Island schemeAcademic report warns delays in the process pose a ‘reputational risk’ to government climate initiatives 021
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025In today's Irish Times, my perspective as a former Fulbright scholar and current Programme Director for University College Dublin Environmental Policy MSc programme, where we are seeing significant increases in US/international applicant numbers this year. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...irishtimes.com‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and studentsEurope may benefit as Trump’s campaign against Ivy League colleges is causing academics to consider emigrating 150
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/04/2025Sign of the day… 177303247550
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's. 499166396158
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Not so fun fact: Every hour a person spends in space emits the same climate harming pollution as 2,000-4,600 people on earth (source link below), but today I heard Katy Perry say "everyone should do this to help them love themselves" 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe environmental and moral implications of human space travelHumans have long dreamed of traveling to space. In response to the recent increase in commercial space flight, this paper evaluates environmental impa… 1193
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/04/2025Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years. Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb... 821095
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Holey moley. 115116
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Couldn't have picked a nicer day for a field trip with my UCD MSc Environmental Policy students! Thanks to Baron Randal Plunkett for the personal tour of his novel ecosystem & beautiful estate at Dunsany Castle- to inspire our own campus biodiversity efforts back home! 061
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgProf Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I knew it was bad, but not this bad. An entire road through the amazon built for the Climate COP! If anyone is wondering whether this might be the COP to avoid, I would say yes. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say. 20338155
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgGreenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 11/03/2025interesting to read a very strong case against liquified gas investments WITHOUT even talking about the dangers of climate breakdown: - running costs are enormous (and households pay) - doesn't prevent weather-related disruption - renewables are so cheap and fast they make it redundantirishtimes.comThe debate: Should the State develop a terminal for liquefied natural gas?Geopolitical upheaval, energy security and reliance on UK for supplies are forcing a rethink on the ban on LNG 28231
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025The rise and triumph of the fascist Idiocracy, brilliantly foretold in five frames by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social 44111
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Our final @epaireland.bsky.social-funded policy brief on administrative frictions in Climate Action Plans has just been published, examining the Shared Island Sports Clubs EV Charger Scheme launched in February 2023. To date, no chargers have been installed... 1/X publicpolicy.ie/environment/... 196
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025There are lessons to be learned from across the pond... #datacentres #Ireland 084
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025A climate ad at the #Superbowl was not on my bingo card! 👏👏 031
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This article made me so sad for young people in Ireland. Their lives are uncertain & lacking in the joy & hope I remember from my 20s. One even mentioned uncertainty of climate change as a contributor. 1/2 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...irishtimes.com‘I presumed I’d be at least renting by now’: The lives of Ireland’s 25-year-oldsEmigration, home ownership and climate change are among the issues weighing on the minds of Irish twentysomethings 1196
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Our second of three policy briefs, conducting "sludge audits" to assess the administrative frictions (i.e. "red tape") in schemes within Ireland's Climate Action Plan is live. This one looks at the Solar for Schools scheme to put solar panels on every school in IRL. publicpolicy.ie/environment/...publicpolicy.ieImproving engagement with Ireland’s solar schools scheme by reducing administrative frictions – Public Policy 274
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Yesterday, our UCD Environmental Policy MSc students toured our campus biodiversity initiatives to inspire their Spring trimester project for my Tools for Sustainable Development module, joined by surprise guest, Eamon Ryan - Frmr G'ment Minister for Climate, Environment & Transport (& UCD alum!). 0100
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025RTÉ News has long had a well documented problem with its #climate coverage, but it has improved in recent times. However, as @caugustenborg.bsky.social reports, its coverage of Storm Éowyn has been problematic. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comStorm Éowyn and the cost of muddled climate messagingRTÉ’s recent articles seem to go out of their way to disassociate climate change from Storm Éowyn without sufficient evidence to do so 58130
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgHannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 27/01/2025Not linking extreme weather and #StormEowyn damage to climate change in reporting was a missed opportunity. Even though we don’t yet know how much climate change turbocharged this event, this disruption is consistent with what we expect from a warming world. 24811
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I wasn't thrilled with RTE's reporting of #StormÉowyn wrt #climatechange last week... Thanks to @irishexaminer.bsky.social for letting me express my concerns on the costs of RTE's "muddled climate messaging" and why it matters so much here 1/2: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comStorm Éowyn and the cost of muddled climate messagingRTÉ’s recent articles seem to go out of their way to disassociate climate change from storm Éowyn without sufficient evidence to do so 45417
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My contribution to this week's @rte.ie #PrimeTime on what to expect from Trump's US Presidency from min. 5 here : www.rte.ie/player/serie...rte.ieRTÉ PlayerWatch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free. 020
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit) 21143828210287
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025This morning, I was asked on RTE Countrywide to discuss Programme for G'ment. While I normally focus on my climate policy expertise, I felt a moral duty to raise significant concerns about lack of Government priorities to address biodiversity crisis. 1/x www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...rte.ieProgramme for GovernmentWith Pat O’Toole, political editor of the Irish Farmers Journal and Dr Cara Augustenborg, a member of the Climate Change Advisory Council. 1225
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgCiaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 18/01/2025Some thoughtful analysis of government commitments and action on climate. A great read. No clickbait, just good attention to the data. Love it! 2103
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I'll be on RTE Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social from about 8:15 to talk about this week's Draft Programme for Government. Get the coffee on and join us! ☕️ www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...rte.ieCountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country. 163
Reposted by Dr. Cara AugustenborgFintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025No one has been tracking Programme for Governments as closely as Cara over the years. Great insights 👇 173
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025My reflections from a decade of climate politics in Ireland, including manifestos, Programmes for Government, elections, report cards - and even thoughts on Eamon Ryan's legacy as he leaves politics... all in this Earth Comment for UCD's Earth Institute www.ucd.ie/earth/commen...ucd.ieLessons from a decade of climate politics in Ireland - Earth Comment 4289
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This is the most comprehensive media analysis of environmental commitments in the Draft Programme for Government that I've read so far. My 2025 comms prediction: "Climate cakeism" (c/o @oisinc.bsky.social ) becomes the successor buzz word to "climate laggard" (also c/o Oisin Coghlan!) 021
Dr. Cara Augustenborg @caugustenborg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Good summary of opinions on the environment & climate commitments within Ireland's newly published draft Programme for Government care of @thejournal.ie. My take home: "It was more than I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting much." 1/2 www.thejournal.ie/programme-fo...thejournal.ie'Disingenuous': Government hopefuls want to change how livestock emissions are calculatedChanging how methane is accounted could potentially make it politically easier for the agriculture sector to move towards its targets – on paper. 1137