future of dublin – community ideas for reducing car dependency

The Climate and Transit Quiz

Budget 2025 should focus on cooling the global temperature: We need a vehicle weight sales tax now.

There has been a 1,000pc increase in SUV sales in Europe since 2001. The trends are the complete opposite of what climate action desperately needs and experts have warned that the Government must intervene to influence buyer choices. Small countries like Ireland who currently lead the charge on SUV ownership rates can not only change […]

Wealth inequality & housing: Blaming the migrants for a homegrown problem?

The question of a tax on extreme wealth comes up now and again in the Irish news cycle but never seems to gain any significant traction. Why is that? One thing we notice is as soon as someone mentions wealth taxes, hoards of people are quick to reply saying Ireland already has a plethora of […]

R112 orbital bus route line from Blackrock to Walkinstown

The overlooked orbital from BusConnects

It’s one of the city’s few crucial east-west orbital routes, built long before the M50 and it still has no bus service.
We are proposing a new orbital bus route along the R112 from Walkinstown to Blackrock.

France’s Weight Tax on SUVs: A Practical Breakdown

Understanding the Weight Tax France´s weight tax is an annual road tax payable each year rather than a new car sales tax and is assessed based on the weight of the vehicle. France implemented a weight-based tax on SUVs and other high-emission vehicles to encourage the purchase of more environmentally friendly cars. This tax is […]

Fine Gael´s comments linking homelessness and immigration a distraction from their catastrophic record on home building

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Is social mobility in Ireland falling and why does that matter?

Biological evolution gave humans a fairness instinct, and cultural evolution has promoted fairness above other competing values in the developed world because it critically enables complex cooperation, a crucial component for economic gain and rising living standards. Populism is a political ideology or movement that champions the interests of the common people against the perceived […]

5 things we need more than a 10th consecutive year of tax giveaways

The Irish government has consistently revised upwards the tax thresholds as part of its annual budgets since 2014. This means that the amount of income you can earn before paying higher tax rates has increased each year since 2014. This happened initially under a Fine Gael majority government and now happens as part of their […]

Significance of Air Pollution and Children’s Health

Long-Lasting effects Air pollution exposure in early childhood can have long-term consequences. Children who are born prematurely or with low birth weight because of a mother’s exposure to air pollution during pregnancy are at high risk of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, hypertension, and diabetes later in life (14, 15). Similarly, stunted lung growth caused by […]

Projected Make-Up of EU Parliament Circle

European Elections 2024: Environmental Scorecard (Climate Action Network EUROPE)

With the upcoming European and local elections, migration is consistently cited as our biggest issue [2][3][4] but is it actually our greatest problem? Climate change is the single biggest threat to our existence and way of life in all of recorded human history. It is inextricably linked with everything from our life expectancy, food production, […]

Why we need more buses on the M50 and why it won´t happen

Whilst the court of public opinion is still out on the need for a complete revolution in terms of urban mobility towards mass scale public transport, the scientists and climate experts weighed in long ago on the need for a modal shift towards public transit. Ireland is going to need to make a complete paradigm […]