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Dave Robbins

@dpmrobbins.bsky.social
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Assoc Professor of Journalism, Dublin City University. Researcher in environmental and climate communications.

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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I enjoyed discussion climate change communications with Brendan O'Connor on @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Does COP30 have a marketing problem?
David Robbins, Co-director of the Institute for Climate and Society gives his take on why the messaging around climate change is not working and explains why it needs to move away from jargon and acro...
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Panel 2 is about the arts as a way to respond to the climate crisis. Writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh notes that a mature oak tree is home to 2,400 other creatures - "we need to be more oak" she says
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
5. Link to Human Rights Defenders (you get dashcams and body cams apparently!)
 6. Link to European Council and make submissions to public bodies such as national parliament and UN.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fidelma O'Kane of the Save Our Sperrins anti-gold mining campaign gave a list of recommendations for environmental campaigns to succeed:
1. Use media (both social and traditional)
2. Network, locally and internationally
3. Link with other NGOs
4. Get someone elected to office.../
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our first panel of speakers takes up the theme of environmental defenders - Sarah de Roure of @frontlinedefenders.bsky.social lists many indigenous activists being attacked by private security companies and governments.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Irish people wanting to take action to protect the environment should focus on their TDs (members of parliament) - a concerted campaign of writing to public representatives can be very effective says Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social , speaking at the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference today.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social ends with a quote from an indigenous leader: "Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself".
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In her work as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social says she has prioritised environmental rights defenders - fossil fuel extraction should be considered criminal, but it is the activists who are being prosecuted
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
@dcuclimate.bsky.social director @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social puts today's event in context and welcomes attendees
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Everyone has the right to take peaceful action to protest against breaches of human rights...states should consider climate activists as human rights defenders" - @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Now up is our keynote speaker Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Here's what to expect from today's event - please follow us on @dcuclimate.bsky.social for the day.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We want to explore how the arts and humanities can help us understand, explore, and somehow deal with the unfolding climate and biodiversity crises. And what a way to kick off today's conference than with a recital from the DCU Campus Choir.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Good morning! I will be posting from the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference taking place in @dublincityuni.bsky.social in Dublin today. The theme is "dispatches from a changing climate: engaging society through activism, storytelling, and the arts".
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great post Ellen. I've just been to see Wicked with my daughter and shared your blog with her, which sparked a great discussion about anthropocentrism!
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I also recommend this editorial in the @irishtimes.bsky.social calling for political courage and leadership on climate in Ireland: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
irishtimes.com
The Irish Times view on the climate crisis: political courage to act is missing
The general election took place inside a bubble, when a calamity with fundamental implications for society and the economy was relegated to a side issue by the three largest parties
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The year ahead in climate change, in Ireland and around the world. Verdict: it's going to be rough, but the direction of travel has been set. My article in today's @irishindependent.bsky.social www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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David Robbins: Climate action is on the slide worldwide, but delaying hard decisions is merely storing up more agony
Until recently, part of my job involved writing the introduction to a research newsletter emailed to 2,500 people working on climate change.
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Dave Robbins @dpmrobbins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As a refugee from you-know-where, I want to throw myself on the kindness of the Bluesky community - I am prepping a class on how the news media cover intersectional aspects of climate change (race, class, gender, ethnicity, etc.) - any suggestions or comments?
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