UCD Earth Institute

UCD's Institute For Environmental, Climate and Sustainability Research

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Environmental, Climate And Sustainability Research Blog

An early career researcher blog series

Earth Comment

Earth Comment provides comment, opinion and explainers on environmental, climate and sustainability issues from leading experts in the UCD Earth Institute

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Built Environment

Climate

Earth Talks

Ecosystems & Evolution

Water

Crops for the future

Sustainable Communities

About UCD Earth Institute

The UCD Earth Institute fosters multidisciplinary research and works with stakeholders to address global, regional and national environmental challenges.

Based in University College Dublin’s Belfield campus, the Institute is a focal point for UCD’s environmental, climate and sustainability research and is home to state-of-the-art research facilities.

Research

Research & Education

Our community has world-leading and wide-ranging environmental, climate and sustainability research expertise, with over 250 full and associate members.

Policy & Governance

The wide range of expertise within the Institute ensures that we can inform and lead policy in focused disciplines and in multidisciplinary topics.

Enterprise & Innovation

We foster entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and technology commercialisation, while our researchers work directly with commercial partners.

Society & Engagement

We strive to produce research that makes a demonstrable contribution to society, with our researchers working closely with the communities most affected by their work.