The next lecture in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Change lecture series will be delivered by Professor Ms Lea Berrang Ford, Deputy Director at the UK Health Security Agency.
Professor Ms Lea Berrang Ford is Head of the UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security and a Research Chair in Climate and Health at the Priestley International Centre for Climate. She is an expert in climate change impacts on health, adaptation to the health effects of climate change, and the health implications of decarbonisation.
Prof. Berrang Ford was a Lead Author on the 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report, is a co-author on the 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, and led the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, an international collaboration of 125 scientists to assess evidence on progress on global adaptation to climate change.
She has led international, interdisciplinary projects on climate and health for over a decade, working with a range of global research and policy partners, in particular in Uganda, Peru, and the Canadian Arctic. Ms Berrang Ford is a former Research Chair in Climate and Health with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and former a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow.
This lecture, entitled ‘Climate change and health: from paralysis to pragmatism’, will provide an overview of the landscape of climate change and health including risks, intervention opportunities and state of the evidence. It will address the challenge of coordinating research and governance and move from ‘paralysis to pragmatism’ in the face of daunting and uncertain climate change and health risks.
Welcoming Professor Berrang Ford, Ms Laura Burke, Director General, EPA, said: “We are delighted to welcome Professor Berrang Ford to give the first EPA Climate Lecture of 2024 on the topic of climate change and health. Climate change will have wide ranging global consequences for human health, arising from extreme weather events such as heatwaves, storms and flooding, increasing suitability of regions for invasive species, implications for mental health, and impacts on antimicrobial resistance.
Ms Burke further added: “Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment highlights the climate-related health impacts and the opportunities that face Ireland. Effective climate action in response to this challenge will make us more resilient to the coming changes and bring benefits for individuals, public health, and society.”
Professor Berrang Ford will draw on the experience of the new Centre for Climate and Health Security within the UK Health Security Agency and will lay out an optimistic vision for how public health and environmental agencies begin to respond and prepare for the grand challenge of climate change threats to health.
The public lecture will take place tomorrow Tuesday, April 23rd at 6:30pm at The Banking Hall in the College Green Hotel, Dublin and will also be streamed online. This free event requires registration through the following link HERE. The event will also be recorded and uploaded to the EPA YouTube channel, located HERE.
This lecture forms part of the National Dialogue on Climate Action, and people can also follow the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #ClimateLecture2024, See HERE.
Pre-deceased by her loving husband John, her sister Peggy and brother Pat; Mrs Dunne passed away peacefully, while aged in her 99th year.
Her passing is most deeply regretted, sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her sorrowing family; her loving family, Helen, Sean, Maeve and Colette, her grandchildren Aidan, Ellen, Eddie and Alina, sons-in-law Paul Kennedy and Michael Farrell, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
The extended Dunne family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time, and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE
Note Please: Family flowers only.
“Kitty’s family would like to extend their sincere thanks to all the staff of Aperee Living Callan, (previously Stratmore Lodge Nursing Home), for the wonderful care shown to Kitty in her six years residing there”.
A seven-year-old boy, sadly, lost his life yesterday, following a tragic accident at a hotel swimming pool on the Tipperary/Clare border.
We understood that the boy was attending a birthday party at the Lakeside Hotel & Leisure Centre, latter which overlooks the twin heritage towns of Ballina in Co. Tipperary and Killaloe in Co. Clare.
Gardaí and emergency services quickly responded to the scene shortly before 3:00pm yesterday, Saturday April 20th. The boy was rushed by ambulance from the Leisure Centre to University Hospital Limerick, where he was later pronounced dead.
The local coroner has been notified, and arrangements are being made for a post-mortem examination.
We understood the boy was recovered from the water in a unconscious state and efforts were made to try to save his life at the poolside.
While the incident is being considered as a tragic accident, the pool within the hotel’s leisure centre has since been closed.
Gardaí, operating in the Clare/Tipperary Roads Policing Unit, continue to focus on drivers found speeding.
Pictured above; Gardaí stopped the above truck on the M8, latter pulling a long trailer. The driver was detected driving at a speed of 107km/h, in an 80km/h, restricted zone.
The driver of the above car was issued a ‘Fixed Charge Penalty Notice’, (3 penalty points), for driving at 160km/h on the M8.
Gardaí continue to request drivers of vehicles to please be aware of their speed, especially within restricted zones.
“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them”. [Matthew Chapter 6 – Verse 26.]
It was a beautiful day today here in Thurles, Co. Tipperary; after weeks of rain which confined most of us, during off duty hours, to our livingroom armchairs.
Today, in bright sunshine, local residents got their first opportunity, in months, to catch up on work required in neglected gardens. From all directions, today, came the drone of petrol lawn mowers and the scraping of stone against spade heads.
‘Roly’ the Robin with at least one member of his family hidden in overgrown wall ivy. Pic: G. Willoughby[600mm Lensusedto ensure no disturbance of nest site].
‘Roly’my friendly Robin, joined me, much to the anger of numerous wiggly worms, latter who sadly met their “Waterloo”; having been disturbed with the help of my spade and fork; to be quickly consumed by ‘Roly’s’ wife and family.
It is estimated that there are over 2 million breeding pairs of Robins within the Republic of Ireland any one year. Nest are usually well-concealed, in ivy or a cavity in a tree; in a wall, or an open-fronted nest-box and often close to ground level. Some species find the most unusual locations, such as a discarded teapot; a hat, or in the torn pocket of an overcoat, latter long since abandoned in a garden shed.
Despite appearing to be friendly and inhibited, Robins are in fact very territorial birds and will viciously attack other Robins that appear in their territory. Males will verbally abuse each other, before their high pitched debate escalates into a physical fight, which can result in serious injury or even death.
Robins eat a wide variety of foodstuff, including worms, invertebrates, ripe fruit, mealworms, seeds and suet and are a regular visitor to any furnished bird table.
Today, I am reminded again that in my home, as a boy and to my families delight, two Robins regularly joined us at the dinner table. Believe it or not, one bird often ate mashed potato from my uncles outstretched tongue, while sitting perched on his nose, so great was the trust.
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