GRIAN is a new, action-based network that been established to support Irish public action on climate and climate change, with a specific mission to concentrate as much on sourcing and providing solutions as on creating awareness of the threats.
Taking its name from the Irish word for the sun, GRIAN also stands for Greenhouse Ireland Action Network.
Working on the basis that that what you see is what you ought to get, GRIAN intends to do exactly that and will concentrate on delivering a network for action in Ireland on climate, climate problems and climate solutions.
On the same basis, GRIAN believes that alternatives to fossil fuels are freely and readily available from the sun, either in the form of direct solar energy, or in the more indirect form of wind, wave, or biomass energies,---all of which represent secondary forms of solar energy.
Until now, no
single Irish NGO has tasked itself with a specific mandate to concentrate on climate
issues, climate problems and climate solutions, in contrast to the situation in most other
OECD (and many non-OECD) economies. This is ironic, given the recent rate at which
climate and climate issues have begun to hit the headlines, not to mention climate impacts
beginning to show up in our part of the world.
GRIAN intends to provide a focus for informed
public action and debate on the many complex factors involved in both the problems and
their solutions.
A NEW PLATFORM FOR CLIMATE AND
CLIMATE-RELATED ISSUES IN IRELAND.
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