Mission
Climate Ireland is Ireland’s national adaptation platform and is provided by the Environmental Protection Agency as part of the EPA's climate adaptation work.
As the adaptation platform for Ireland it sets out to:
- Analyse, consolidate and present existing scientific/technical information of relevance to climate resilience
- Assess and display up to date climate projections for Ireland
- Act as a home for consolidated output of climate impact and climate adaptation research in Ireland
- Act as a portal to information available from other reliable sources
- Actively engage and develop long term relationships with core user group
- Build the capacity of users to engage with climate adaptation and to mainstream climate resilience within their own areas of work
- Create awareness of the need for climate adaptation
- Expand on international linkages to share and develop best practice in climate information platforms and related services
Parent organization
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The National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA) identifies 115 risks and five potential opportunities due to projected changes in climate conditions. There are a total of 43 significant risks identified for Ireland.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.