Nuacht & Imeachtaí

• Progressing Sustainability and Grasping the Opportunity to Change, NESC Secretariat Paper

  • 14 July 2020
  • Topic: , Sustainable development

  Governments are increasingly recognising the environmental, social and economic opportunities to do things differently as part of recovery from Covid-19. As Ireland works to rebuild, it is important to reflect on how we can configure and align policy responses in ways that successfully drive and deliver sustainable low carbon development and practices that sustain our…

• NESC to host the 28th EEAC Annual Conference ‘Delivering a Just Transition for All’ online – 27 to 29 October 2020

  • 13 July 2020
  • Topic: , Sustainable development

  Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic NESC had planned to host the Annual Conference of the European network of advisory councils on environment and sustainable development (EEAC Network) in October 2020.  The conference would be held in Dublin Castle. We’ll go online Given the likelihood that the Covid-19 crisis will still be ongoing in October, NESC…

• Pandemic provides glimpse of new possibilities for Ireland’s housing system—new paper from NESC Secretariat

  • 26 June 2020

    The Covid-19 pandemic and the response to it has helped reveal valuable lessons for policy-makers about Ireland’s housing system.  A new paper from the NESC Secretariat, The Implications of Covid-19 for Housing in Ireland, argues that it has brought insights about what has been done well, some important lessons and provided food for thought…

• Covid-19 has made good jobs ‘better’ and poor jobs ‘worse’—new paper from NESC Secretariat

  • 10 June 2020

    The Covid-19 crisis is challenging us to re-think how work is valued.  A new paper from the NESC Secretariat, How We Value Work:  The Impact of Covid-19, argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has made good jobs better and more valuable to the worker; and made poor jobs worse, yet more valuable to society. ‘The…

• NESC publishes Research Series paper No.16 Modelling the Zero-Carbon Transition: International Approaches and Lessons for Ireland

  • 25 May 2020
  • Topic: , Employment, Environment, Sustainable development

  The Government’s Climate Action Plan and Future Jobs Ireland 2019 included a request for NESC’s advice on how to manage the transition associated with climate change and digital automation. Specifically, how to minimise the impact on any vulnerable workers and sectors, and how to seize opportunities. Government policy is intended to lead the low-carbon transition,…

• President Higgins welcomes NESC’s ‘seminal document on the economy, society and a just transition’

  • 15 May 2020
  • Topic: , Employment

    In an article written for the Sunday Business Post, April 26th, President Higgins welcomed NESC report No.149, Addressing Employment Vulnerability as Part of a Just Transition in Ireland, read A Uachtarian’s full speech here on president.ie.

• NESC publishes Research Series paper No.15 Four Case Studies on Just Transition: Lessons for Ireland

  • 11 May 2020
  • Topic: , Employment, Environment, Sustainable development

  Just transition is a new and emerging topic. It should be kept in mind that we are examining transitions in progress, and that there are no ready-made templates of successful, completed, transitions to a zero-carbon economy. There is a wealth of literature on internationally agreed foundational principles, but few examples of transitions in practice and…

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper No.20 Approaches to Transition

  • 30 April 2020
  • Topic: , Employment, Environment, Sustainable development

    This paper is part of the NESC work on transitions and looks in particular at how transitions are approached elsewhere and the range of perspectives at play. The paper reviews the practical tools and conceptual approaches being used to support transition, with particular focus on international experience in  managing downside risks that disproportionately affect…

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper No.19: The Transition to a Low-Carbon and More Digital Future: Supporting the Needs of Vulnerable Workers and Enterprises

  • 14 April 2020
  • Topic: , Employment, Environment, Sustainable development

    This Secretariat paper provides background analysis that underpins the Council’s report (No.149).  The Irish Government asked the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) to examine the specific issue of the vulnerability for workers, firms and sectors caused by the transition to a low-carbon and more digital, automated future, and to provide recommendations. The Council…

• NESC publishes Council Report no 149: Addressing Employment Vulnerability as Part of a Just Transition in Ireland

  • 31 March 2020

  MEDIA RELEASE Ireland’s Just Transition and Covid-19 How do you manage a transition to a fundamentally new economic future? This question had been the focus of work at the National Economic and Social Council in the months and weeks before Covid-19. The Council’s work a key deliverable in the Government’s Climate Action Plan and Future…