Presentations from the 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference was held in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June, 2022 in association with UCD and the Geary Institute. The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. The research papers are below...
Call for Papers - 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
We face multiple challenges in Ireland and globally from a range of issues not limited to inequality, economic development, public health and ecological breakdown. These issues require responses on the part of government at many levels. To ensure these responses are at the sufficient scale and...
NERI Video Series Ep 14 - What is behind climate inertia?
Aoife Murphy of the UCD Internship Programme who worked with the NERI speaks to Profesor John Barry of Queens, Belfast on barriers to effective climate policy in Northern Ireland and the Republic, a...
Risk issues within the Agricultural sector on the island of Ireland: mapping for a sectoral Just Transition
In this week's NERI blog, NERI intern Aoife Murphy examines factors which may impede equitable transitions towards environmental sustainability in the Agricultural sector on the island of Ireland. Despite its disproportionate contribution to overall emissions, the Irish agricultural sector, both...
The Irish Economy and the Environment
In this week’s NERI blog, economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly summarises his recent report looking at the Irish economy’s relationship to nature. He finds that the Irish economy is often a poor performer, and that there is little evidence to date for a break in the historic relationship between...
Ending the era of soft denial
In this week’s NERI Blog, economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly highlights the gap between climate rhetoric and reality in light of the latest COP. He argues that we must get beyond accepting the science and avoiding its implications for action. What should we make of the last two weeks at COP26? At the...
No time for delay on climate action at COP26
In this week’s blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly points out the dangerous path we are on globally ahead of COP26, and the need for a new approach which looks at things like luxury emissions. This Halloween marks the opening of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 in...
NERI webinar - 'No Going Back - The Fight for A Fairer Future' - Presentation
The NERI webinar 'No Going Back - The Fight for A Fairer Future' took place as a Zoom webinar on Tuesday 26 October 2021 at 13:10. This was a Fringe Event at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Biennial Delegate Conference (BDC). Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021 Time: 13:10 - 14:00 Topic: 'No...
Does consumption in the Republic of Ireland respect planetary boundaries?
In this weeks blog, NERI economist, Paul Goldrick-Kelly explores some of the key findings from his NERI InBrief 'Does consumption in the Republic of Ireland respect planetary boundaries?' This InBrief uses the recently developed planetary boundaries framework to examine whether environmental stress...
The recovery is coming but there can be no going back to the old economic model
This weeks blog is by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell, it is an article that he wrote for the Irish Examiner on 12 July 2021. The pandemic has changed the future direction of the economy with the speeding up of remote working and digitalisation. The economy is on the cusp of a rapid and sustained...