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  • Natural Capital Accounting: A Guide for Action 

    Moore, Jeanne (National Economic and Social Council, ireland, 2024-01-18)
    Council report (National Economic and Social Council), No.164, January 2024
    How can Ireland better account for nature? On request from Government and drawing on in-depth engagement with key stakeholders, this Council report provides advice on natural capital accounting and presents a guide for ...

  • Inequality and Well-Being Frameworks 

    McGauran, Anne-Marie (National Economic and Social Council, ireland, 2023-07-26)
    Council report (National Economic and Social Council), No.163, July 2023
    Inequality, although a contested concept, is generally understood to mean the unequal distribution of social, biological and other factors, which results in unequal opportunities and/or outcomes for those negatively affected. ...

  • Just Transition in Agriculture and Land Use 

    Garvey, Niamh (National Economic and Social Council, ireland, 2023-07-11)
    Council report (National Economic and Social Council), No.162, June 2023
    The agriculture and land use sector can increasingly be a part of the solution to address urgent climate change and biodiversity loss. Ireland has committed to a national climate objective of transitioning to a ...

  • Social Enterprise on the Island of Ireland 

    Johnston, Helen (National Economic and Social Council, ireland, 2023-05-30)
    Council report (National Economic and Social Council), No.161, May 2023
    This report provides an overview of the state of social enterprise internationally, in Ireland, in Northern Ireland, and on a shared island basis. A social enterprise is an enterprise whose objective is to achieve a ...

  • Understanding the Irish Economy in a Time of Turbulence 

    FitzGerald, Cathal (National Economic and Social Council, ireland, 2023-04-06)
    Council report (National Economic and Social Council), No.160, April 2023
    Since 2020, Ireland’s economy has experienced a sequence of three significant shocks, in the form of the pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis, and the invasion of Ukraine. Over that time the policy-system has demonstrated ...

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