Professor Brian ? Gallach?ir:

Last week at Queen's University Belfast we had an event called Reach 24 that was explicitly around connecting the arts with climate action. It was under the auspices of Sustainable Development Solutions Network Ireland, which is a gathering of universities in Ireland connected with a wider gathering internationally to bring information and knowledge from the universities into society to advance the sustainable development goals. There are emerging initiatives in this space. As Dr. Quinn mentioned, the EPA is to be commended as it has made some tweaks to its research programme in the past couple of years that have helped. It does not take away from the earlier point I made about the overall level of funding for research being insufficient given the challenge we are facing but some green shoots are certainly emerging.