Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity and Queen’s University Belfast students to tackle Inspire Impact Innovation Challenge

Students will aim to develop solutions to pressing social challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)..

2 Oct 2024

Business|Environment|Innovation|Sustainability

Trinity introduces interdisciplinary sustainability education

In September, approximately 600 new students will be taking a very different kind of module in Trinity. The module, called Enacting Sustainable Development, will be mandatory for new students in Trinity’s Business School. The overall aim is that similar modules focusing on sustainable development issues and the development of ESD competencies will be available throughout the University.

26 Sep 2024

Business|Sustainability

Scientists enlist “Witness Trees” to track climate change and pinpoint which species can best clean our air

The scientists, from the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity, will collect data over the next 30 years to assess how the climate is changing and outline which species are best at filtering out dangerous “smog” from the atmosphere.

23 Sep 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Key stakeholders work to restore pollinator habitats across agricultural landscapes

Researchers in the People and Nature group (from Trinity’s Department of Botany) recently delivered the first Irish RestPoll stakeholder workshop, with the goal of restoring pollinator habitats across agricultural landscapes by working in tandem with farmers, land managers and other groups to deliver win-win solutions.

17 Sep 2024

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Tree of the month - ‘Rouge de Touilliere’

This month we are bringing you a very special newly planted tree. Albizia julibrissin, or ‘Rouge de Touilliere’ is commonly known as ‘Chinese or Persian Silk Tree’ and is described by Barcham Tree Specialists as the "Holy Grail of trees". You can find this tree nearly centrally located in the lawn behind Rubrics, facing the Book of Kells Experience.

30 Aug 2024

Sustainability

Trinity student named in Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators in the World

Trinity PhD candidate Luke Gibbons has been selected by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as one of the Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators in the World 2024.

20 Aug 2024

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Trinity welcomes Professor Karen Wiltshire as first CRH Chair of Climate Science

An expert in coastal research and a Trinity alumna, Professor Wiltshire returns to the university from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, where she served as Vice-Director in combination with a professorship in Shelf Sea Ecology at the University of Kiel.

19 Aug 2024

Environment|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity researchers to receive Grow Phase funding under the National Challenge Fund

Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, announced the first nine teams to receive Grow Phase funding under the €65 million fund to work on solutions to major environmental and societal issues.

31 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity team’s wastewater heat recovery solution earns runner-up prize in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge

The REHEATZ team, led by Professors Aonghus McNabola, Padraig Carmody and Paul Coughlan have worked to develop the first hybrid wastewater heat recovery technology for application in Zambian food production.

22 Jul 2024

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Sustainability

If this analysis of Dublin's transport plan was submitted by a student, I would fail it

Trinity economist Barra Roantree has written a piece originally for The Journal that is critical of an analysis produced on Dublin City's traffic management plan

15 Jul 2024

Business|Community|Sustainability