Staff & Research Areas
Working Groups
Climate Change Group
Researcher: Joseph Curtin
Chair: Peter Brennan.
The Climate Change Group is chaired by Peter Brennan, Managing Director of EPS Consulting.
The member of the Institute’s core research staff specialising in this policy area is Joseph Curtin
About the Climate Change Group:
The Institute’s Climate Change Group is active in monitoring and analysing climate change policy at an international, European and national level, and in researching the strategic implications of climate change for Ireland and the E.U. Since its establishment at the Institute, the Group has undertaken a number of highly regarded research projects, which have informed and influenced the direction of climate change policy in Ireland.
The Climate Change Group comprises high-level representatives from Government Departments, state agencies and companies, environmental NGOs and representatives from the professional and academic sector. The Group convenes regular meetings with international experts, and as such, provides a forum for the articulation of views and cross-germination of ideas on climate change issues. Some of these meetings are open to the wider membership and are of particular interest to policymakers, the media, the diplomatic corps, parliamentarians, government officials and the wider policy community.
To find out about upcoming events in this area, please consult this page.
Previous speakers on climate change include, amongst others:
Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA
Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner
Claude Mandil, former Executive Director of the IEA
John Gormley, Minister of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
James Cameron, Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project and Vice-Chairman and Co-Founder of Climate Change Capital
Joseph Curtin
Senior Researcher
Climate Change Group