Event Three: Improving responses to biodiversity protection and environmental assessment while meeting renewables targets.

This event, which took place in Dublin on 3rd May 2023, explored how Ireland can improve environmental assessment and biodiversity protection while delivering the necessary infrastructure to meet climate and renewables targets. 

The workshop included an afternoon session with NGO and industry stakeholders. The session built on Friends of the Earth’s preceding workshop on the same topic in October 2022 (see here). 

Issues discussed in the meeting included impediments to environmental protection and renewables/grid rollout. As part of this session participants were invited to consider areas of common ground between stakeholders in terms of both challenges and necessary responses. 

• A copy of the event programme can be viewed here.
• View a summary note of the workshop here