Climate change is having profound effects on Earth’s systems. Its effects can be seen on every continent, with some areas being affected mo

Natural Capital Ireland presents a public talk for Trinity Climate & Biodiversity Action Week by Ece Ozdemiroglu, eftec

To coincide with SDG Week 2024, we are inviting organisations or individuals with an interest in our work and natural capital to meet us

Natural Capital Ireland will host a stand at the 3rd annual Heritage Ireland 2030 Summit to celebrate Ireland’s national heritage

The ForES team, in collaboration with the Nature + Energy  project and the IDEEA group , published a discussion paper on the application of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) at site-level, led by Dr. Courtney Gorman. Here, co-author Francesco Martini, Trinity College Dublin postdoc, outlines some key findings... The SEEA EA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting) is the internationally recognised standar

Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil sequester and store carbon, pulling damaging carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In June, Dr Catherine Farrell attended the Natural Capital Symposium at Stanford University in the US to share our work on Ireland's INCASE

An update from ForES project postdoc Francesco Martini on the team's recent visit with Pro Silva Ireland to a forest site managed with CCF

Natural Capital Ireland is delighted to announce the appointment of Deirdre Lane, founder ShamrockSpring, as our new Executive Coordinator

We are deeply saddened to share the news that long-time Natural Capital Ireland Steering Committee member Jennifer Fulton has passed away

Natural Capital Ireland has teamed up with Green Foundation Ireland for a free event for Biodiversity Week exploring how the natural capital

There are many arguments about which type of tree is 'better' but both broadleaves and conifers fulfil different roles within ecosystems

Our Natural Capital Project colleagues at Stanford University in the US are hosting a major natural capital event this summer

Our colleagues at IDEEA Global are part of a new project supporting Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Commission, on...

Following the publication of its report Natural Capital Accounting: A Guide for Action, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC)...

Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan TD launched ‘Actions For Nature’ – Ireland’s new National...

NCI facilitated in a series of workshops with the National Economic & Social Council of Ireland (NESC) looking at what is required in...

In advance of the holiday festivities, ForES Project PhD candidate Kathleen Conroy of Trinity College Dublin came up with this cute robot character Dot the Botany Bot to walk us through an animated explanation of how accounting for ecosystem services works in a forestry context... as Dot searches for the forest of her dreams. Does it exist? Click below to watch... What are ecosystem services? Ecosystem services are anything that the natural world provides that brings about a

In 2023, our colleagues in IDEEA Group in Australia launched a natural capital roadmap to help organisations to create a natural capital...

Natural Capital Ireland's Martha O'Hagan-Luff, Trinity College Dublin, and Policy Working Group lead Dr Emer Ní Dhúill joined Dr Tadhg...

Ireland’s first national Bioeconomy Action Plan has been published by the Government to coincide with Bioeconomy Ireland Week 2023, with...

NCI welcomes the announcement of a new Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund with an unprecedented €3.15billion pledged for nature that...

Natural Capital Ireland (NCI) has issued a pre-Budget submission to all relevant Government departments recommending that the natural...

This summer ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy and Postdoc Francesco Martini of Trinity College Dublin represented our project at a number of conferences and summer schools. Here's an update on what they have been working on and what's to come... June 2023 Kathleen Conroy attended the British Ecological Society Trees for Climate Change, Biodiversity and People symposium. She presented a poster entitled “Creating Ecosystem Extent Accounts to Understand Land Use Change in Irish