News & Events

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

  • 31 March 2020
  • Type: Press Releases

  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…

• NESC working arrangements during Covid-19

  • 30 March 2020
  • Type: News

  In line with Government guidelines in response to COVID-19, NESC staff are working flexibly at home. Staff will continue to be available via email (firstname.surname@nesc.ie). For Secretariat, Head of Administration and accounts emails click here. General queries should be sent to info@nesc.ie. Our media queries can also be sent to info@nesc.ie The NESC building is…

• Knowledge and Policy: Confronting Governance Challenges in the New Decade

  • 7 January 2020
  • Type: Events

    NESC & Maynooth University Department of Sociology Conference Tuesday, 7th January 2020 The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Number Six Kildare Street, Dublin 2 The National Economic and Social Council, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, hosted a conference to examine how knowledge and policy work together to allow societies…

• NESC publishes Council Report 148: Transport-Orientated Development: Assessing Opportunity for Ireland

  • 6 June 2019
  • Topic: Environment, Transport
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE What if urban development made it easier to use public transport, and cycle or walk to work and school? The State must build on the vision set out in Project Ireland 2040 to maximise the number of homes, jobs, public services and amenities which are close to frequent, high-quality transport services. This is…

• NESC publishes Council Report 147: Climate-Change Policy: Getting the Process Right

  • 23 May 2019
  • Topic: Environment, Transport
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE ‘Getting the Process Right to Deliver on Climate Change’ There is a growing consensus that ambitious action is needed if we are to stop climate change. Ireland is ready to do more as evident from the efforts of our children and young people, as well as the Oireachtas Joint Committee’s report and ongoing…

• NESC Director Dr Rory O’Donnell speaks at The Vienna Model Seminar: Demography, Migration, Integration and Housing by The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century

  • 8 April 2019
  • Type: News

    NESC ‘s Director Dr. Rory O’Donnell, is speaking at The Vienna Model Seminar: Demography, Migration, Integration and Housing by The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century, today Monday 8th April, 2019 in CHQ, Dublin Docklands, Dublin 1. For more information on this event click here To view the programme click here

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper on The Framing of Climate Action in Ireland: Strategic Considerations

  • 4 April 2019
  • Topic: Environment
  • Type: News

  Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing policy-makers today, and Ireland’s record on climate action is widely accepted as being disappointing. Part of the explanation for this lies in the uncertainty about what action Ireland can and should take, and uncertainty about how acceptable any climate action will be to various groups…

• NESC Director Dr Rory O’Donnell speaks on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference

  • 5 December 2018
  • Type: News

  NESC’s Director Dr Rory O’Donnell is on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference today Tuesday 4th December 2018, at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin. For more information on this event click here To view the programme click here  

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper on Multistakeholder Agreements in Climate Governance and Energy Transition

  • 27 November 2018
  • Topic: Energy and renewables
  • Type: News

  This Secretariat paper examines national multistakeholder agreements in energy and climate governance. These refer to negotiated agreements setting out national long-term energy and climate objectives which include a range of stakeholders, from social, economic and environmental actors to political parties. The paper focuses in particular on the 2013 Dutch Energy Agreement between the social partners,…

• NESC publishes secretariat paper on Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environment and Climate Change

  • 15 November 2018
  • Topic: Environment
  • Type: News

  The practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has undergone substantial change in the last two decades, driven by the inclusion of environmental and climate-change considerations. The objective of this paper is to understand these changes and the implications they have for the implementation of CBA to Irish project appraisal. It sets out briefly what CBA is…