Only One Ireland: Ireland and Agenda 21

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The report Sustainable Development: A Strategy for Ireland (PDF, 267 pages, 1.8MB), published in 1997, provides for each of Ireland's local authorities to complete Local Agenda 21 Plans for their areas. Agenda 21 officers are engaged by each local authority to coordinate work on the plan.

Two examples of Local Agenda 21 plans include those by County Meath and Dublin City. In 2001 Dublin City Council further committed itself to Local Agenda 21 principles in the Publication 'Dublin's Choice: A Better Future' (PDF, 68 pages, 5MB).

Check out the Support Page for the Local Agenda 21 Processes in Ireland
Background to Local Agenda 21
Learn about Ireland's progress on Local Agenda 21
Get involved: Dublin City Council in association with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government administers the Local Agenda 21 Environmental Partnership Fund (LA21 EPF). This offers funding for community based projects that promote the principles of Local Agenda 21 at a community level.

The island of ireland

Once upon a time, and for 15000 years, ice a mile high blanketed Ireland. When the lingering Ice Age finally released and the Irish ice departed it left a landscape scoured. Across land bridges linking Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe plants and animals arrived to colonise the new lowlands, mountains and valleys. The world’s ice continued to melt, the sea levels to rise, and some 8000 years ago Ireland became the island we now know, accounting for just 0.01% of the world's total land area and the most westerly point of Europe.

Though at Alaskan latitudes, the country's climate is tempered, due partly to the neighbouring waters of the Gulf Stream and partly the prevailing southwesterlies that veering and backing make landfall on our sodden coast. These offerings from the Atlantic mean it is never too hot, never too cold. But without doubt it is wet. Rain lingers year round, never far away, though is most frequent in winter, the western counties and, inevitably, on the day of your parade.