Embedding Well-being in Northern Ireland - project participants
Friday 27 April 2018
The Carnegie UK Trust’s Embedding Well-being in Northern Ireland project will offer financial and in-kind support for Community Planning Partnerships to implement a local wellbeing outcomes approach in selected local authority areas in Northern Ireland.
Sustainable Northern Ireland is pleased to introduce a Social Value Toolkit, developed to help public sector organisations in Northern Ireland embed social value principles into their procurement approaches.
The event was held on Tuesday 8th May at Herbert Smith Freehills in Belfast as part of a UK roadshow organised by the UN Global Compact to help explain what the UN Sustainable Development Goals are, why businesses should care about them and how businesses can contribute to achieving the Goals and benefit from doing so.
Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
Monday 23 April 2018
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles.
The Commissioner for Resilience – the city’s first – will help build a comprehensive resilience strategy for Belfast, addressing major ‘shocks’ such as flooding, infrastructure failure and cyber–attack.
'We need to eat less and better meat and dairy' say campaigners
Friday 20 April 2018
Eating Better and its partners including Friends of the Earth, Sustain, WWF and Compassion in World Farming have released a report which sets out how a ‘less and better’ approach to meat and dairy is better for people, animals and the environment.
The latest in a series of highly successful SNI training events, which focussed on carbon management, providing delegates from the public and voluntary sector with the tools and information needed for measuring and managing their organisation's carbon footprint.
A Project Ideas Lab, organised by Sustainable Northern Ireland in partnership with SEUPB, which focused on promoting EU funding streams and identifying and developing sustainable development projects which may be elegible for EU funding.
Blog: What is the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland?
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Michael Scholes and Aidan Stennet from the NI Assembly Research Matters Team investigate the myriad of factors which lead to a gender pay gap and investigates the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland.
A pioneering new pilot project in Nottingham aims to make select households ultra-low carbon and fit for the future by renovating them using the 'Energiesprong' techniques used in the Netherlands.
