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Five Degrees of Change

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Five Degrees of Change: Andrew Brownlee on how upskilling can speed up the transition to green energy

  • Daniel Murray
  • June 7, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

Five Degrees of Change:‘We need 50,000 additional construction workers to build and retrofit homes’

Andrew Brownlee, chief executive of state further education and training agency Solas, says that construction is one of the most important sectors where new labour and new skills are needed to deliver on climate action
  • Daniel Murray
  • June 4, 2023

A Simply Better
Christmas

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Podcast

Five Degrees of Change: Simon Sharpe on turbocharging climate action

Five Degrees of Change is the Business Post's energy and environment podcast
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 30, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

‘You have to understand what is the worst that can happen and how might you stop it’

Physicist and British civil servant Simon Sharpe has been on a mission to wake his government up to the dangers of climate change
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 28, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

Sadhbh O’Neill on doing her best to avoid single use packaging

The campaign coordinator with Stop Climate Chaos shares her policy and personal changes for a greener world
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 21, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

Daniel Murray: Winds of change needed if state is to meet offshore energy targets

On time delivery of entirely new industry will need regulation, planning, legal and administration to all fall into place this year
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 21, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

Daniel Murray: Our powerful semi-states should not escape public sector climate mandate

Dublin Port and the DAA have either recently expanded or are planning to expand their capacity significantly, with little thought given to the climate consequences of their actions
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 14, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

Five Degrees of Change: Muireann Lynch on the environmental benefits of breastfeeding

Muireann Lynch, energy researcher with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), spoke to the
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 14, 2023
Podcast

Five Degrees of Change: Neasa Hourigan on breaking up big tech

The Green Party TD discusses life under suspension as well as her policy and personal changes for a greener world
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 9, 2023
The Big Interview

‘I'm too old and too bold to be bullied. I'm going to keep going’ – Green Party’s Neasa Hourigan

The Green Party TD for Dublin Central, who is currently suspended from her parliamentary party for voting against ending the eviction ban, talks about the changes she wants to see on the Business Post Five Degrees of Change podcast
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 7, 2023
Five Degrees of Change

‘We need to build up our own capacity to become energy self-sufficient’ – Mark Mellett

As part of the Business Post’s Five Degrees of Change podcast, environmentalist Mark Mellett names both policy changes and personal aspirations for an ecologically robust world
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 10, 2022
Podcast

Five Degrees of Change: Erinch Sahan

Head of Enterprise at Doughnut Economics Action Lab explains why the ownership structures and governance of businesses need to change
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 6, 2022
Five Degrees of Change

‘The way we are living, with such intense consumerism, is not sustainable’ – Erinch Sahan

We need to completely rethink our economic structures – but luckily we already know how to do this, says Erinch Sahan, head of business and enterprise with the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, who supplies five policy and personal changes he would make for a greener world
  • Daniel Murray
  • December 3, 2022
Five Degrees of Change

‘Those most impacted are the least well off’ – Michelle Murphy, Social Justice Ireland

Michelle Murphy, a research and policy analyst at Social Justice Ireland, advocates a carbon tax on food, regular meetings for communities to decide the best way to tailor a just transition to their particular needs, and targeting electric vehicle grants at those living in rural Ireland
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 26, 2022
Podcast

Five Degrees of Change: Laura Burke

The director general of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives her five degrees of change for a greener world
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 22, 2022
Five Degrees of Change

‘What’s happening with targets is less greenwashing and more time washing – Laura Burke, EPA

The environmental protection agency’s director general says the gap between aspiration and action and the polarisation of debate on the environment are major challenges that need to be addressed for a greener future
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 19, 2022
Podcast

Five Degrees of Change: Andrew Murphy

The head of buildings and industry with the Environmental Coalition on Standards spoke about how to include aviation emissions in national climate targets, and ban emissions offsetting
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 15, 2022
Five Degrees of Change

‘Here was a bunch of people who had a huge incentive to get offsetting right. What they came up with was a mess’ – Andrew Murphy

Our latest guest on the Business Post’s Five Degrees of Change energy and environment podcast, Andrew Murphy of the Environmental Coalition on Standards, suggests five policy and personal changes for a greener world, such as including aviation and shipping in national climate targets and revising our idea of what ‘toasty’ feels like
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 12, 2022
Podcasts

Five Degrees of Change: Thomas Duffy

Farmer and agri-environmental consultant spoke about policy changes he would like to see for a sustainable rural Ireland
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 8, 2022
Five Degrees of Change

‘Solar is an area of common ground between farmers and environmentalists’ – Thomas Duffy

The latest guest on our Five Degree of Change podcast series, the vice-president of the European Council of Young Farmers, outlines his personal changes and the policy changes he would like to see, including a ban on below-cost selling of food, to support a sustainable future
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 5, 2022

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