Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity to headquarter Climate+ Co-Centre

The new €41.3 million research centre will be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain.

28 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Professor Anna Davies wins Irish Research Council Impact Award

Anna, Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity, has won the 2023 Irish Research Council Impact Award for her longstanding commitment to world-class research that focuses on facilitating action for a more sustainable society.

21 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Sustainability

Trinity joins pilot international sustainability education programme

The cohort of institutions will work closely with their students throughout the year to engage with the framework of good practice, effecting changes to teaching and learning at the top-down, middle-out and bottom-up levels.

2 Nov 2023

Culture|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Call out for community climate action projects to join forces with Trinity researchers

Interested in taking action on the climate crisis but don’t know how to make it happen? Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are looking to collaborate with communities on a locally-led 18-month project focusing on climate action.

19 Oct 2023

Community|Society|Students|Sustainability

New project chases net-zero renewable energy systems for the Atlantic Area

Researchers from Trinity are leading a €3.2 million project (HY4RES) that will see them develop hybrid renewable energy systems for the green transition of the Atlantic area of Europe.

19 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trees of the month – Santry Sports Grounds

We are doing something slightly different in honour of Climate and Biodiversity Action week by featuring not just one tree, but an entire woodland area filled with native and naturalised trees at Trinity’s Santry Sports Grounds. Here you will find Oak, Horse Chesnut and Pine trees along with more exotic species such as Sweet Chesnut, Ginkgo and Redwoods.

18 Oct 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Five Fellows to develop Trinity’s programme of Education for Sustainable Development

Trinity has announced a new strategic initiative to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) throughout the curriculum. Five members of academic staff from across all three faculties have been seconded to work with Trinity’s Centre for Academic Practice (Trinity Teaching & Learning) and Trinity Sustainability.

2 Oct 2023

Environment|Research|Sustainability

Academy of the Near Future wins Silver at Seoul Smart City prize

Academy of the Near Future (ANF) has been awarded silver in the ‘Human-Centricity’ category at the Seoul Smart City Prize in South Korea. ANF is a collaborative initiative between Dublin City Council and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity.

28 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Sustainability

Trinity's trees - featuring the Southern Magnolia

This month we are bringing you Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as the Southern Magnolia. It is located just behind the 1937 Reading Room in the Provost’s Garden. This is a mature specimen of M. grandiflora and measures 16 m in height with a girth of 1.2 m, but they can grow to 35 m in height.

28 Sep 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Researchers join National Challenge Fund to help Ireland prepare for green transition and digital transformation

Six researchers from Trinity – who make up four teams – are among those taking part in the latest round of the National Challenge Fund. While pursuing different projects, they share the goal of helping Ireland prepare for its green transition and digital transformation.

11 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Sustainability

New project will improve EU hydropower sustainability with potential to save €1 billion per year

Researchers from Trinity will lead a €4.1 million Horizon Europe project to develop digital solutions that improve the efficiency, flexibility and sustainability of the existing EU hydropower fleet. The project will make a huge impact on energy sustainability in the EU, where 50% of the current hydro fleet may require upgrading by 2030.

7 Sep 2023

Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Trinity Tree of the Month – the Banana tree

This month we are featuring the Banana tree, or Musa acuminata, which is one of our unique indoor trees located in the O Reilly atrium. This plant can grow to seven metres tall and has leaves that are up to four metres long. These plants absorb a large amount of carbon to produce leaves and fruit, but quickly release it once fruited and die back occurs. Musa acuminata originated in Southern Asia and some reports suggest the plant has been in cultivation for close to 7000 years.

24 Aug 2023

Environment|Science|Sustainability

Trinity tree of the month- the Kentucky Coffee Tree

This month we are featuring the Gymnocladus dioicus, commonly known as the Kentucky Coffee Tree, which was planted in 2020 on the boardwalk side of College Park. It is currently 5.6 metres tall, 25 cm in girth, and can grow to almost five times its current size. When mature it will store up to 1200 kg of carbon.

1 Aug 2023

Community|Environment|Sustainability

Green Tech Skillnet provides 30% discount on selected Trinity green courses

Trinity is pleased to announce that Green Tech Skillnet, an organisation dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, will provide a 30% discount for learners pursuing several of Trinity's green diplomas and micro-credential courses.

7 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

The weeds shall inherit the Earth

Human land use is now comparable to climate in driving global patterns of plant occurrence, with new research showing that species are not affected equally; slow-growing plants like trees are less able to cope with more intensive human land use than disturbance-tolerant species like grasses.

4 Jul 2023

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

The tide of medicinal plants and natural products is rising: conference hears

Trinity hosts the 71st GA2023 conference to explore the opportunities of unlocking nature’s pharmacy

3 Jul 2023

Environment|Health|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

No Mow May gives life to rare orchid

A rare orchid has appeared on Trinity's campus as an unexpected outcome of its decision to allow wildflowers bloom in the month of May. Trinity stopped mowing several formal lawns across campus for the month of May as part of the international No Mow May initiative. This allowed wildflowers like clovers and daisies to bloom and provided food for pollinating insects, which are currently in decline.

3 Jul 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Trinity tree of the month - Black Walnut

This month we are bringing you another gorgeous tree from Trinity College Botanic Gardens – Juglans nigra, or Black Walnut. This Black Walnut is 25 metres tall, has a girth of 2.62 metres and stores an estimated 2,617 kilograms of carbon. It can store up to 6,000 kilograms when it matures.

21 Jun 2023

Environment|Sustainability

National economies recover faster when countries are powered by renewable energy

Researchers from Trinity looked for patterns in data from 133 systemic economic crises that affected 98 countries over a 40-year span en route to their main finding, which has profound implications for global energy policy.

14 Jun 2023

Business|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Green Pearse Street campaign officially launched

Jane Stout, Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action, and The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Caroline Conroy, officially launched the Green Pearse Street campaign in partnership with several businesses in the area. The objective of Green Pearse Street is to ‘green’ the street, improve air quality, create a health and biodiversity corridor and to add more social space.

6 Jun 2023

Environment|Sustainability