Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity’s groundbreaking carbon capture tech takes off at Dublin Airport

Trinity's carbon capture tech initiates its first industrial-scale field test at Dublin Airport, demonstrating its potential for revolutionising carbon capture in aviation and e-fuel industries.

1 Jul 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Three new Trinity projects to address climate challenges

Dr John Kennedy, Prof. Wolfgang Schmitt, and Matthew Chersich have secured Environmental Protection Agency funding to support related research.

19 Jun 2025

Trinity chefs go hyperlocal, serving herbs grown on campus

Trinity Catering chefs will cook meals from ingredients grown in a newly installed kitchen garden, called Trinity Beo, on the roof of Trinity Business School. The garden has hardier plants like rosemary, thyme, mint and nasturtium, along with fruits like strawberries, apples and pears.

9 Jun 2025

Sustainability

Heatwaves greatly influence parasite burden; likely spread of disease

New research from scientists at Trinity College Dublin strongly implies that heatwaves have a major influence on the spread of many diseases – and that many existing predictive models have overlooked this complexity.

4 Jun 2025

Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability

Waste not: CHARM-EU students tackle real-world sustainability challenges

Trinity will today host the final day of XHIBIT, an intensive learning programme during which CHARM-EU students teamed up with local organisations to develop sustainability solutions.

16 May 2025

Environment|Students|Sustainability

Plastic manufacturing technologies jeopardise food safety and the environment

AMBER Centre researchers based in Trinity have discovered that the way many everyday plastics are manufactured builds unseen stress into the material—stress that later drives the release of tiny plastic particles into our food and the environment.

13 May 2025

Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability

The Climate Fiction Prize 2025: the five shortlisted books reviewed by our experts

Chris Morash, School of English, joins a panel of researchers to review the novels shortlisted for the 2025 Climate Fiction Prize.

13 May 2025

Culture|Environment|Research|Sustainability

From ashes to concrete

Engineers have devised a means of transforming biomass ash byproduct into high-quality concrete, which reduces carbon emissions by over 50%.

6 May 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Glitter’s sparkle hides a darker side – it can change the chemistry of our oceans

Drs. Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco and Kristina Petra Zubovic from Trinity's School of Natural Sciences write about some important research of theirs in this piece first published by The Conversation.

2 May 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Earth Day Action Forum

Today, Tuesday 22nd April marks the 55th anniversary of the global initiative Earth Day with the theme Our Power, Our Planet! Trinity marked the day with a forum to discuss Our 51% Challenge, the reduction in energy-related emissions we must meet by 2030.

22 Apr 2025

Sustainability

Simple water-saving technologies could shave nearly €10 million in state water costs by 2030

Installing efficient water-saving technologies (taps, showers, toilets) in new build homes in Ireland could save €280 annually in a four-person house when associated energy savings are also included.

17 Apr 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Sustainable, shared community mobility project among National Challenge Fund finalists

Professor Brian Caulfield, from Trinity’s School of Engineering, is involved with project "CONUNDRUM", which has received Grow Phase funding as a finalist under the National Challenge Fund programme.

25 Mar 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Research|Sustainability

Trinity Water Centre launches ahead of World Water Day 2025

The Trinity Water Centre—a pioneering hub dedicated to advancing research, innovation, and education in water—which will primarily address global water challenges, inform resource management, and deliver technological advancements.

21 Mar 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

New eMobility eHub offering electric cars, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes for the public launches in Galway City

The eHubs offer a range of shared public travel options, providing residents and visitors with convenient, sustainable, and cost-effective travel choices.

21 Mar 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

eMol eSoghluaiseachta nua a chuireann gluaisteáin leictreacha, rothair leictreacha agus rothair leictreacha lasta ar fáil don phobal seolta i gCathair na Gaillimhe

Cuireann eMoil raon roghanna taistil phoiblí comhroinnte ar fáil, ag soláthar roghanna taistil atá áisiúil, inbhuanaithe agus éifeachtúil ó thaobh costas de do mhuintir na háite agus do chuairteoirí.

21 Mar 2025

Environment|Research|Sustainability

Climate change fuelling mental health crisis in areas most affected by climate crisis

Climate change is not just an environmental issue — it’s a mental health crisis impacting on adolescent wellbeing right now in areas most affected by climate change, according to new research from the School of Psychology.

18 Mar 2025

Environment|Research|Society|Sustainability

Sustainability Leadership Awards 2025

Provost Linda Doyle and Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout kicked off the awards held in Portal on Wednesday, March 12th as part of Trinity's 23rd annual Green Week. The awards are in their third year running, an initiative conceived and led by Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett.

13 Mar 2025

Sustainability

Green week 2025 launches with new sustainable accreditation

Trinity kicks off Green Week 2025 as the first university in the Republic of Ireland to receive the Responsible Futures accreditation following a student-led audit to measure Trinity’s progress in embedding sustainability in the curriculum, in our governance and in our operations. The week launched with a student Q&A with former President and Adjunct Lecturer for Climate Justice Mary Robinson on Monday, March 10th.

11 Mar 2025

Sustainability

Untapped potential of seaweed farming the focus of new Irish Seaweed Association

Hosted by the Centre for Social Innovation at Trinity Business School and the School of Natural Sciences, the Irish Seaweed Association is a spin out from the C-FAARER research project.

28 Feb 2025

Business|Research|Science|Sustainability

Researchers secure EPA funding to pursue seven “green living” projects

Seven researchers from Trinity have secured Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding totalling €4.4 million to pursue research projects with a focus in climate change, environmental and human health, and more sustainable living

20 Feb 2025

Research|Science|Sustainability