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Pictured is EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik beside a 100 per cent Nissan LEAF electric car at Dublin airport. As part of ESB’s sponsorship of Ireland’s presidency of the EU, the company is facilitating the provision of electric cars.

PurOrigin, a new venture focused on designing and developing novel, energy efficient, domestic appliances, has won the University College Dublin 2012 NovaUCD 2012 Start-Up Award. In addition to the award the promoters of PurOrigin were presented with a €20,000 prize fund after being declared overall winner of University College Dublin’s 17th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme.

New cars sold in 2011 were 3.3 per cent more fuel efficient than those sold in 2010.

IFA president John Bryan has described the recent climate talks in Durban as an ‘opportunity missed’ to recognise the important carbon sinks associated with grassland and forestry, and to address the dual challenges of increasing global demand for food while reducing international greenhouse gas emissions.

Pfizer’s Loughbeg site in Ireland has become the first Pfizer pharmaceutical plant worldwide to achieve the ISO 50001 standard — and it was achieved with the help of software from a Galway company.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan has stood by his decision to reprioritise the implementation of the Climate Change Bill in the face of recent criticism.

Labour Party Dáil candidate Ann Phelan said that climate change is a silent human crisis and the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time.

Dear Galway First,

Having spent three nights in Strasbourg last week, I caught up with the three sitting MEPs for Ireland East and got an opportunity to have a look at their daily lives as MEPs.

The Green Party's representative in Kilkenny has welcomed the announcement by ministers Eamon Ryan and John Gormley of €100 million worth of new grants that will help homeowners. People living in local authority housing will save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through better insulation and energy systems.