Trinity student Lyndsay Walsh recognised at Climate Ambassador Awards

Posted on: 05 December 2019

Ten awards were presented to individuals and groups from across Ireland at the Climate Ambassador Awards in November for their work in communicating and taking action on climate change. Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment; Richard Bruton, T.D. attended the awards and acknowledged the commitment of all Climate Ambassadors and their valuable work in communities all over Ireland. Over the course of the year, Climate Ambassadors engaged over 200,000 people; carrying out 500 climate-based actions, and 800 climate communications.

Student Lyndsay Walsh completed An Taisce’s Climate Ambassador programme in 2019 and was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award for her incredible work in communicating climate change to the IMF/World Bank, leading ecological studies in the Amazon Basin and using her platform on CNBC to raise awareness of climate justice to an international audience. Lyndsay is estimated to have reached over 1.2million people in 2019, which goes to show the power and influence that one person can have. At a local level she has started an environmental book club in Trinity, organised clean-ups and vegan cooking nights to help family and friends’ transition to a plant-based diet.

130 citizens from a wide range of backgrounds including secondary school students and teachers, university students, academics, healthcare workers and businesspeople were selected to be Climate Ambassadors in 2019. The programme, now in its second year, has gone from strength-to-strength with Climate Ambassadors gaining key skills and confidence to take action, and inspiring others to join them on their journey.

Selected Ambassadors are provided with training on climate science and communications and become part of a powerful network of committed individuals sharing their knowledge, learning from each other and building relationships. Throughout the year they are asked to undertake four key actions during the year – two climate communications and two climate actions.

The awards are a celebration of the hard work that has taken place over the last year and the enormous effort and dedication that the Climate Ambassadors have shown throughout the process. To mark this, each Climate Ambassador will receive a certificate of recognition for their achievements.