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A “once in a lifetime opportunity for Ireland” or a “disaster” which “goes against science”? Sharp differences have emerged among Galway politicians following the publication of the Government’s Climate Action Bill.

Carbon neutrality by 2030 and reductions in food wastage and water consumption are among the targets set out in NUI Galway’s new sustainability strategy, launched by the university this week.

When it comes to the collection of data about Ireland’s €1.25 billion seafood sector, Ireland has fallen behind many of its European counterparts, that’s according to Irish researchers heading up a new seafood sustainability initiative.

Nissan and AIB have joined forces in an ambitious initiative to put more electric vehicle drivers onto Irish roads and help support the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Foodie Save is an exciting new mobile app that will be launching in Mayo soon. It will be available for download at the beginning of August.

'Yes' - Peter Butler

Local Fine Gael Councillor, John Dolan, has reacted unfavourably to the Green Party requisite of a seven percent reduction in greenhouse gases prior to taking a decision to enter a coalition Government.

Has the planet declared war on humanity over the last year? It certainly seems so as we witness one destructive storm after another in Ireland, heatwaves across Europe and southern Africa, hurricanes leaving trails of destruction from the Bahamas to Mexico, wildfires from Greenland and Siberia to Australia, melting ice from Antarctica to the Arctic, droughts in India, locust swarms in east Africa, increasing acidification of the oceans leading to the loss of a third of the largest structure on earth (Great Barrier Reef), city dwellers dying from poisonous air, flooding at crisis levels on every continent, soils becoming less fertile, and birds disappearing from the skies, insects from the fields and fish from the oceans.

A quiet community in Dangan will be converted into downtown Los Angeles when a motorway flyover is constructed beside it, a spokesman for a residents association told the Galway City Ring Road Oral Hearing yesterday (Wednesday).

The importance of biodiversity, business, and bats dominated the opening of the second week of the An Bord Pleanala oral hearing into the proposed Galway City Ring Road (GCRR), held at the g Hotel.