Welcome to the eighth annual National Climate Action Week, Ireland’s largest pop-up climate festival that’s filled to the brim with unmissable in-person and online events and special collaborations! When it comes to protecting our planet, education, people power, and taking action matters! Uniting together in our communities, organisations, colleges, schools, with our friends and in our homes, for Climate Action Week and beyond, means we will have an even greater chance to make a difference!

So, whether you fancy peddling to the beat of a Bike Disco, using your gamer skills to solve climate change, competing in a Thrifting Treasure Hunt or even planning your own unique climate event, there is something for everyone this Climate Action Week 2024!!

There are strength numbers, and we want YOU to TAKE ACTION by TAKING PART! Check out our Climate Action Week calendar of events below for details of how to join in, sign up and have fun!

Think about what brings you joy! Maybe it’s your hobby or something you are good at, then seek out a climate action that matches! For example – if you have a fondness for food? Why not join our Sustainabili-Tea Tour! A love for nature? Then make sure you join our, highly popular, Biodiversity Webinar! Or perhaps you are a budding journalist… a great gamer or long to ‘Fix’ the fast fashion industry… we promise we’ve got an event for all! And the bonus is you’ll meet like-minded people, have fun, and make memories too!

Talks, biodiversity walks, planting trees, climate chats and cups of teas, beach cleans, protecting bees, repair cafes… If you or a group have been looking for an excuse to host an event… then Climate Action Week October 14^th – 20^th is the week!

Get organising and make sure to send us the details of your upcoming event so we can help shout about it on socials and shine a light on your fantastic actions.

HOST MAKE WATCH PLEDGE TRACK

Host a ‘Big Swap Shop Party’

‘The Big Swap Shop Party’ offers the perfect opportunity to declutter your wardrobe, catch up with friends and bag yourself some seriously sustainable style, without leaving the comfort of your home! This Climate Action Week let’s make preloved fashion the ‘Latest Trend’. Host your own Big Swap Shop Party by following our 5 easy steps: Host, Swap, Chat, Pledge, and Post!

Host: Plan and host a Big Swap Shop Party in your own home, inviting your most fashionable pals!

Swap: It’s time to give that ‘too small coat’ and those ‘why did I buy those flares’ a new home! Discover the joy of decluttering your old clothes and swapping them for new-to-you threads while also being super sustainable!

Chat: Use ‘The Big Swap Shop Party’ as an excuse to catch up with family, friends, and neighbours and start a conversation about climate action and circular fashion!

Pledge: Encourage your attendees to pledge to host their own ‘The Big Swap Shop Party’ soon. Let’s make this party a circular movement that keeps going beyond Climate Action Week.

Post: Spread the word about ‘The Big Swap Shop Party’ and the importance of circular fashion – Post your plans. Post about your party. Post your ‘Swap Shop Hauls’! And remember to tag us on @climateambassador & use the hashtags #BigSwapShopParty #ClimateActionWeek.

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Make Your Game Campaign

Download our print and play version of Face Your Floods, and design the boardgame for your area. Face your Floods is a new game from Climate Smart, designed to teach all about Climate Adaptation in a novel and engaging way. Compete against your classmates to see who is best at protecting their home community and be elected as mayor of their town.

But first: you need to make the board. Identify the flood threats of your local area and use our easy map overlay to customize the board map for your area. Print it out on A3, and off you go. Share pics during #ClimateActionWeek so we can see how you are learning to adapt!

Get in touch with climatesmart@eeu.antaisce.org to get your downloadable gaming pack.

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Watch: Inside the SHEIN Machine

Chinese fast fashion giant Shein’s success story is unrivalled, but at what cost? Iman Amrani investigates the famously secretive business, as hidden cameras go inside factories for the first time.

Watch the trailer here.

Screen time: 50minutes

Watch free here!

What’s your #ClimateActionWeek Pledge?!

Complete the #ClimateActionWeek Tracker!

Once you’ve hosted your swap shop or made your game or held a screening it’s time to fill in the CAW Tracker so we can measure what actually happened during Ireland’s 8th #ClimateActionWeek!!!

CAW Tracker

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Bike Disco

5pm Monday 14th October

Foster Place, Dublin

Saddle up with the Climate Ambassadors and kick-start your week with a fabulous bike disco on Monday 14th October from 5-7pm. Meet us at 5 Foster Place where we will gather and groove with thanks to Dublin Pedal Tours who are providing the banging sound system to get us in the mood.

Deck out your bike with lights, bells and whistles, wear whatever neon you have, and get ready to bop to the beat!

Get tickets!

Primary Climate Ambassadors

10am Monday 14th October

online

The Primary Climate Ambassadors will kick off Ireland’s 8th National Climate Action Week on Monday the 14th of October from 10am to 11am, online via Zoom.

The programme celebrates the incredible accomplishments of Green-Schools that have proudly earned all 10 Green Flags. This event is open to everyone involved in PCA – students, teachers, and staff alike! We’ll guide you through the programme and officially launch our exciting Climate Action Week competition.

The Climate is Right to Podcast

6:30pm Tuesday 15th October

online

Tune in for a panel discussion on communicating climate through the medium of podcasts. An Taisce’s Climate Action Officer, and new host of The Climate Ambassador Podcast, Daithí Brooks, is joined by Darragh Wynne from ‘The Climate Alarm Clock’ podcast and Ceara Carney of the ‘Book of Leaves’ podcast. They will share their experiences of interviewing guests, staying on top of research and developments, and how they manage Climate Anxiety – both for themselves, and for their audiences!

Let’s Fix Fashion

1pm Tuesday 15th October

online

Green-Schools Ireland are delighted to launch its Let’s Fix Fashion campaign for 2024. Watch ‘Inside the Shein Machine’ during #ClimateActionWeek and join our panel discussion on Fast Fashion hosted by Green-Schools and Lillian Gleave, Let’s Fix Fashion ambassador. Learn about our textile recycling in Ireland with our panellist from Clothespod and about the impact of fast fashion in Ireland and Kenya. Be inspired by past students of the campaign from Coláiste Muire, Ruaraka and Makini schools in Kenya.

Energy: Junior Cycle CPD

7pm Tuesday 15^th October

online

Join SEAI for an interactive online one-hour CPD session which will introduce you to some fun and practical ways to explore the topics of energy conversions, energy efficiency and energy conservation with your students. Aimed primarily at Junior Cycle science teachers, this workshop was developed in conjunction with JCT STE(A)M at junior cycle (now part of Oide). It covers the energy strands across the Junior Cycle Science Specifications.

Upcoming events – Welcome to Blackrock Education Centre, Ireland (blackrockec.ie)

Green Skills 2030

10am Tuesday 15^th October

The Mansion House, Dublin

Join SOLAS for the launch of Green Skills 2030, the 1st National Further Education & Training (FET) Strategy for the Green Transition.

Launch of Green Skills 2030 Tickets, Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

Not Stopping Now! Dark Matters

1pm Wednesday 16th October

online

This #ClimateActionWeek, the Climate Ambassador Programme, in collaboration with The Heritage Council and the Biodiversity Network, is excited to bring you the finale of our webinar series designed to help you reconnect with nature.

“Not Stopping Now: Nature’s Resilience” featured four engaging webinars, each focusing on a different aspect of our amazing biodiversity. These sessions showcased nature’s incredible ability to adapt and thrive, highlighting innovative conservation efforts, and exploring how we can all play a part in supporting these initiatives.

In the fourth and final session, Climate Ambassador Georgia MacMillan from Dark Sky Ireland will talk about Dark Skies and how to restore our natural nightscape as a habitat.

Catch up on the previous biodiversity talks featuring Pollinators, Bats and Birds!

Energy: Junior Cycle CPD (as Gaeilge)

7pm Wednesday 16^thOctober

online

Tá SEAI ag tairiscint Ceardlann Fuinnimh do mhúinteoirí iarbhunscoile trí mheán na Gaeilge. Forbraíodh an cheardlann, i gcomhar le JCT, ina ndéantar iniúchadh ar na snáitheanna fuinnimh i Sonraíocht d’Eolaíocht na Sraithe Sóisearaí, go háirithe an Domhan Fisiceach 6, 7, Nádúr na hEolaíochta 10, agus Domhan agus Spás 6.

Cuirfidh an cheardlann bealaí spreagúla i láthair chun fuinneamh a mhúineadh sa seomra ranga. Déanfar staidéar ar éifeachtúlacht fuinnimh, caomhnú fuinnimh, tiontú fuinnimh agus cur amú fuinnimh i slite taitneamhacha agus idirghníomhach. Cuirfear an cheardlann ar fáil ar line.

Upcoming events – Welcome to Blackrock Education Centre, Ireland (blackrockec.ie)

Green Campus

1pm Wednesday 16^th October

online

Join us for the launch of ‘Greening Laboratories’ as a new sub-theme of the Green Campus programme. Green Campus committees working in colleges and teaching hospitals can achieve positive benefits by working with laboratory staff to take action in laboratories where waste, energy and water figures can be relatively high. Dr Úna Fitzgerald from Irish Green Labs will join us along with Helen Maher from the HSE Capital & Estates Sustainable Infrastructure Office and Dr Ana Rakovac, co-chair of the Tallaght University Hospital Green Committee for this lunchtime webinar.

If you have any queries, please contact greencampus@eeu.antaisce.org

Webinar Registration – Zoom

Young Reporters for the Environment

1pm Thursday 17th October

online

The YRE Programme is excited to bring you a series of lunchtime skills-based webinars designed to help you with your 2025 YRE competition entry. The theme of this years’ competition is ‘Ecosystem Restoration’. Each webinar will focus on the core categories of reporting from Written Article to Photography and Videography.

We are delighted to be joined by Helen Shaw, communications and storytelling consultant, for the launch this year. She holds a MSc in Climate Change and is a former print journalist and public broadcasting editor, having worked with BBC and RTÉ. She heads her own digital media company and is a muti-award winning documentary-maker.

YRE is a programme that gives a platform to young people to articulate their solutions to environmental issues through journalistic content – articles, photo reportage or video content.

For inspiration, please visit https://yreireland.exposure.co/

If you have any queries, please contact Claire at yre@eeu.antaisce.org

Screening: Wilding

6pm Thursday 17th October

Online

Join Green Campus and the Climate Ambassador programme for a special screening celebrating Climate Action Week. We will show the award-winning film Wilding. Don’t miss this opportunity to come together from the comfort of your own home and be inspired by powerful storytelling that shows how we can revive nature and restore hope.

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

Watch the trailer here

Games Night

6pm Friday 18th October

5 Foster Place, Dublin

Join us at 5 Foster Place for a fun and chill boardgame night, playing many climate-themed boardgames. From our new game, Face Your Floods, the beloved Cards against Climate Change, and two exciting games brought to us from Climate Ambassador Lala, the Net Zero Game and the Thing from the Future, we are sure to have a night with games for everyone to enjoy. Not a board game fan? We also will have our online web game iAdapt, available to play! Get to meet new people, or catch up with those you’ve met before, at the very least, enjoy some lovely donuts we’ll have on hand!

Get tickets!

Thrift Shop Treasure Hunt

12pm Saturday 19^th October

Dublin

This is a call out to all the second-hand thrifters and preloved newbies! This National Climate Action Week we’re going on a Thrift Shop Treasure Hunt! With two Sustainable Fashion Experts as our guides, we’ll tour the treasure trove of charity thrift shops that Capel Street and George’s Street have to offer! Along the way we’ll help each other spot the perfect sustainable styles, vintage finds and hidden upcycle gems… there might even be some fun fashion challenges too! Laden down with our bags of second-hand goodies we will end the day with some complementary sandwiches, treats and a warm brew in KC Peaches! Shopping circular fashion and food… yes this really is the perfect event!

We’ve only 15 spots available – so book your spot on The Thrift Shop Treasure Hunt Today!

Get tickets here!

Sustainabili-Tea Tour

4pm Saturday 19^thOctober

Dublin

Join the Climate Ambassadors for a vintage tea tour around Dublin’s fair city. Enjoy scrumptious locally-sourced afternoon tea and the best plant-based desserts Blazing Salads has to offer. Set your sights on sustainability and sit back, relax, and see Dublin through a fresh lens.

Buy tickets here!

The ‘Big Swap Shop Party’ and Repair Cafe

12pm Sunday 20^th October

5 Foster Place, Dublin

This Climate Action Week, the Climate Ambassador Programme is giving you a very sustainable ‘Swapportunity’ to switch the clothes you no longer wear for new styles that won’t cost the earth! So raid your wardrobe, find 5 swish items, that deserve a new owner, bring them along to the ‘Big Swap Shop Party’, and swap them for 5 new-to-you items surrounded by like-minded sustainable fashion-loving people! It’s a win-win!

What to bring; Up to five items; Clean & Good condition; clothes, accessories, bags! Everything from glitch and glam (it is a party after all) to cosy and comfy is accepted!

You’ll receive a token for each item you bring which you can use to swap for the same amount. Any unused tokens can be used at a future Change Clothes Swap.

Get tickets here!

Climate Change Cabaret

7:30pm Sunday 20^th October

SugarClub, Dublin

Climate Change Cabaret presents the Green Grannies Apocalypse Bingo. A feel-good cabaret extravaganza of songs, dance, comedy, burlesque, and action tips to beat your climate blues. Prize for the Most Glamorous Grannies and Grandads so dress to impress!

Buy tickets here!

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Youghal Climate Action Week!

The people of Youghal have come together to create an incredible programme of actions that can help each of us make changes that support our environment. There’s something for everyone and remember – every change helps, whether big or small! Check it out here!!!

Laois Climate Action Week!

The Laois Climate Action Festival, running from 6th to 23rd October 2024, features 50 free events promoting sustainability and inspiring climate action. The festival offers a diverse range of events, including the Climate Cocktails Club, Spoken Word with Port Sounds, and Colm O’Regan’s comedy gig, “Climate Worrier,” blending entertainment with important discussions.

There are also hands-on experiences such as gardening workshops, Forest School, and cookery demonstrations providing practical sustainability tips. Well-being events are also a key focus, including Active Hope Workshops and a Mindfulness in Nature Walk at Emo Court, offering moments of reflection and connection with nature.

This festival brings together a perfect mix of entertainment, learning, and community engagement, emphasising that we can all make a difference toward a greener future. Check it out here!!!

For enquires in relation to the Climate Action Week please contact the Environment Section by phone 059 9136231 or by email environment@carlowcoco.ie

Climate Hope Forum

10am Wednesday 16th October

Breiffne College, Cavan

Join the Green-Schools Travel Team as they bring together students and teachers, local authorities and local councillors interested in climate change to harness the collective wisdom, ideas and enthusiasm for making the world a better place. This event is solutions oriented and will celebrate what you, as Green-Schools, are already doing and how we can collectively replicate the best actions and make a bigger impact together. We want to strengthen the National Dialogue on Climate Action and inspire you to confidently encourage climate action in your local school community.

Cavan Climate Action Week

Climate Action Week aims to raise awareness about the actions we can take individually and locally, while showcasing ongoing projects and initiatives across the county. This week serves as a platform to inspire local action and drive positive change. Some events require booking.

Check out the events scheduled from 16th-19th October 2024 here!

Monaghan Climate Action Week

Climate Action Week is about raising awareness on actions and measures we can all do at a personal and local level and to showcase some of the projects and initiatives underway across our County.
The week serves as a platform to inspire action and drive positive change at local level. Attendance to the Climate Action Week events is free, with booking required for some events.

We look forward to seeing you at the wide range of events on offer in Monaghan.

For a full list of events taking place each day click here!

Wicklow Climate Action Week

Wicklow County Council is delighted to announce that their first Climate Action Week is taking place this year, running from Monday, October 14th to Sunday, October 20th. The Climate Action Week 2024 will feature a number of events covering a range of environmental topics, and will help highlight a number of projects that have been highlighted by the Wicklow County Council Climate Action Plan 2024-2029.

For a full list of events taking place each day click here!

Climate Action Week

TU Dublin will lead a host of high impact climate action events developed to engage and educate our people in decarbonisation, climate education, and climate action activity.

During Climate Action Week, students, staff, and the TU Dublin Community will be invited to learn about TU Dublin’s pathway and intent to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% in 2030 and to increase the improvement in energy efficiency from the 33% target in 2020 to 50% by 2030.

With dozens of events and learning opportunities taking place on campus during Climate Action Week, students, staff, and the wider community have an opportunity to help make progress locally and nationally on the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on SDG 13 Climate Action.

Climate Action Week

Trinity College Dublin is running a climate and biodiversity action week from October 14th to 18th 2024!

Check out all their events here!

Let’s Connect for Climate Action Week!

Be part of something transformational and help us stay connected by using the hashtags #ClimateActionWeek #ClimateAmbassador.

And remember to tag us on Instagram @climateambassador, X @climate_ambass, TikTok @climateambassador or Facebook @ClimateAmbassador!

Host a ‘Big Swap Shop Party’

Make Your Game Campaign

Watch: Inside the SHEIN Machine

What’s your #ClimateActionWeek Pledge?!

Complete the #ClimateActionWeek Tracker!

Bike Disco

5pm Monday 14th October

Foster Place, Dublin

Primary Climate Ambassadors

10am Monday 14th October

online

The Climate is Right to Podcast

6:30pm Tuesday 15th October

online

Let’s Fix Fashion

1pm Tuesday 15th October

online

Energy: Junior Cycle CPD

7pm Tuesday 15th October

online

Green Skills 2030

10am Tuesday 15th October

The Mansion House, Dublin

Not Stopping Now! Dark Matters

1pm Wednesday 16th October

online

Energy: Junior Cycle CPD (as Gaeilge)

7pm Wednesday 16th October

online

Green Campus

1pm Wednesday 16th October

online

Young Reporters for the Environment

1pm Thursday 17th October

online

Screening: Wilding

6pm Thursday 17th October

Online

Games Night

6pm Friday 18th October

5 Foster Place, Dublin

Thrift Shop Treasure Hunt

12pm Saturday 19th October

Dublin

Sustainabili-Tea Tour

4pm Saturday 19th October

Dublin

The ‘Big Swap Shop Party’ and Repair Cafe

12pm Sunday 20th October

5 Foster Place, Dublin

Climate Change Cabaret

7:30pm Sunday 20th October

SugarClub, Dublin

Youghal Climate Action Week!

Laois Climate Action Week!

Carlow Climate Action Week!

Climate Hope Forum

10am Wednesday 16th October

Breiffne College, Cavan

Cavan Climate Action Week

Monaghan Climate Action Week

Wicklow Climate Action Week

Climate Action Week

TU Dublin will lead a host of high impact climate action events developed to engage and educate our people in decarbonisation, climate education, and climate action activity.

Climate Action Week

Trinity College Dublin is running a climate and biodiversity action week from October 14th to 18th 2024!

Let’s Connect for Climate Action Week!

Share #ClimateActionWeek with your world!

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