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With climate change very much to the fore and a topic of important conversation amongst the future generation, Arcadia Retail Park have partnered with Town Mayor, Cllr. Frankie Keena, to announce a relevant initiative for the Athlone and Moate Municipal District, sponsored by Westmeath County Council.

Local Fine Gael Councillor, John Dolan, has spoken of his anger and those similar sentiments of his fellow farmers for the manner in which Irish agriculture was apportioned blame for climate change in a series of programmes broadcast on RTE television in recent times.

A public meeting on the pressing issue of climate change will take place this evening at 7.30pm in Aras na nGael, Dominick Street.

Greta Thunberg, and indeed the children of the world, have thrown down the gauntlet and demanded climate action. Solving this literal meltdown is on such a global scale that it must surely be beyond the responsibility of Galwegians?

The Office of Public Works’s draft climate change sectoral adaptation plan for flood risk management has been launched for public consultation.

The Government says all An Post deliveries between the Royal and Grand canals in Dublin will be zero emission by the end of this year. Galway city will have a similar zero emissions fleet a year later.

An NUI Galway project which aims to reduce carbon emissions from peatlands has secured close to €1 million in funding.

As of last Friday (September 1), new car models will have to pass new and more reliable emissions tests.

As Galway braces itself for another winter, a public meeting on climate change and its direct links to how the world economy functions, will be held on Monday November 21 at 8pm in Richardson’s, Eyre Square.

A one-day conference entitled Climate Change and Me: Rising to the Laudato Si Challenge will take place at Knock Shrine on Saturday April 30. The event is being planned and co-ordinated by the Faith Renewal team at Knock Shrine, headed by Fr Richard Gibbons, in response to Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, which highlights the great need for discussion and debate about the issue of climate change. ‘On Care For Our Common Home’, the encyclical critiques consumerism and irresponsible development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls on all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action."