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Dr Stephen Flood
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#SocialScientist #Geographer 🌏 Resilience Lead at Climate Change Advisory Council Secretariat Ireland

🌎 Visiting Schol @ICARUS 🌍 He/Him #SDGs 🌻 https://linktr.ee/floodsg 🎼 Series Ed @Energy, Climate & the Env🌍
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Celebrating 87 thousand downloads of our book: Creating Resilient Futures 🌎🌍🌏

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#Rewilding #JoinTheCommunity #RewildingInEurope
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Our Rewilding in Europe event next week is sold-out, but as before we will record it & share on our YouTube channel ▶️

📢 We are delighted to announce that @whittledaway.bsky.social + @miseanja.bsky.social, will join @jcsvenning.bsky.social for a panel discussion.

www.youtube.com/@irishwildli...
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Climate March Dublin kicking off 🌻🌍🌎🌏
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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We have just published a joint report with @ccacireland.bsky.social setting out the need to increase climate adaptation investment and finance in Ireland. Read more here www.centralbank.ie/publication/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Yesterday the @ccacireland.bsky.social and the @centralbankireland.bsky.social launched a joint report on "Funding Climate Adaptation in Ireland". Collaborations such as these help highlight mutual areas of interest in not just identifying barriers but offering potential solutions. Read more below ⬇️
We have just published a joint report with @ccacireland.bsky.social setting out the need to increase climate adaptation investment and finance in Ireland. Read more here www.centralbank.ie/publication/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Today marks an exciting new beginning as we officially launch NaturePivot! We look forward to connecting and collaborating with you. linktr.ee/naturepivot #NaturePivot #ClimateChange #Sustainability
October 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Small Fish, Big Impact.

🌊 Last week, Grace, our Marine Advocacy Officer, spoke at an Ocean Week event in the EU Parliament.
She highlighted the underlying issues in achieving sustainable inshore fisheries in Irish waters.

@fairseas.ie @seasatrisk.bsky.social #EUOceanWeek #FairSeas
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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It's been one year since 5,000 people signed a petition to save 200-acres at Glen of the Downs. Now it has come to light that some of the adjacent biodiverse oak woodland has been destroyed. We are waiting. @npwsireland.bsky.social
@envpillar.bsky.social
www.greystonesguide.ie/whitmore-wan...
The Greystones Guide | Whitmore Wants Government To Pull The Finger Out On Bellevue Land
One year since petition to save 200-acre Delgany site…
www.greystonesguide.ie
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"The findings show that the rapid adoption of renewable energy worldwide is not matched by changes in higher education, since universities continue to prioritise coal and petroleum studies"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The failure to decarbonize the global energy education system: Carbon lock-in and stranded skill sets
The energy transition involves the transformation of professions and labour markets, which in turn depend on the availability of a workforce with the …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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“Sometimes I think the ice was the best
place I’ve ever been”
Sames xxx 🇦🇶 🦭 ☕️
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Tune into @rteradio1.bsky.social at 6.35pm today to hear Prof Conor Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie and Dr Ruth Quinn @atu-ie.bsky.social discuss the growing impact of climate change on Ireland’s weather patterns.
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Who’s responsible for probably the greatest environmental disaster this century in Ireland? Nobody! What caused it? Nothing! What are we going to learn from it…? Just take a guess…

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Cork fish kill: No culprit for the worst environmental disaster in Ireland this century
A multi-agency investigation failed to find the source of, or even identify, the toxins that killed nearly 40,000 fish in the Blackwater River recently
www.irishexaminer.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The Council’s Annual Review of Adaptation has been published today with key observations and policy recommendations published to help Ireland deal with the impacts of future climate change.
Read the full report here: shorturl.at/LogZL
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Council has said not enough action has been undertaken to address the significant shortcomings exposed by Storms Darragh and Éowyn and it has called for the prioritisation of actions that will have the most impact in advance of the storm season
Read more: shorturl.at/1nqea
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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The irish times certainly got our memo here @ccacireland.bsky.socialwww.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
The Irish Times view on storm preparation: weather won’t wait
Ireland must stop pretending it is too complicated to prepare
www.irishtimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Sustainable #drainage systems slow the rate at which surface water reaches drains and watercourses. 🌧
They can be utilised around your #property to help reduce #floodrisk and #flooding! 💧🏠

Find out more here: thefloodhub.co.uk/sustainable-...

#floodaware #SuDS
September 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Celebrating 87 thousand downloads of our book: Creating Resilient Futures 🌎🌍🌏

Get your freely available #OpenAccess copy ▶️

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found

I think the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Celebrating 87 thousand downloads of our book: Creating Resilient Futures 🌎🌍🌏

Get your freely available #OpenAccess copy ▶️

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A very, very difficult but necessary read.

'Starvation Is Everywhere': Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror

@haaretzcom.bsky.social

(Apologies as I have run out of gift links this month.)

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror
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www.haaretz.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Two years on from the finding in the European Court against Ireland for not implementing the Habitats Directive, what has changed for Ireland's network of protected areas for nature?

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Changing the conversation on Ireland’s Natura 2000 sites
‘If you live in a very special place, that should be a good thing and not a bad thing’
www.irishtimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I’m continually horrified that this genocide is happening in plain sight, that we’re still effectively allied with the perpetrator, and we have become so immune that this headline is currently below “status yellow thunder warning” on the Irish Times homepage. And not even visible on NYT!
August 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM