- Just TEACHERS
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Thinking TREES
- The SDGs 2016-2030
- What EDUCATION?
- Y-TOP International Summer School in Killarney
- I work with schools!
- Development for whom or 'conquest' education?
- Take a 'virtual' tour of the rainforest
- Wood Of Life & the SDGs- this is a hands-on travelling exhibition. It makes local and global links on the importance of wood and forests in our lives.
- Hands-on Education
- Slide SHARE
- Ending Poverty Starts with a TREE - "now yer suckin' carbon"
- Workshops & Training
- Development for whom or 'conquest' education?
- Testimonials
- LOCAL and GLOBAL Views
- What? No CSPE?
- Just Forests Club?
- ECO-Stories for Kids
- Just FURNITURE
- Just CONSUMERS
- World Environment Day 2020
- European Tree of the Year 2017 Contest
- Life in Syntropy
- Our Common Home
- World Record Tree Hug 2016
- Tree Huggers 2015 Contest
- European Year of Development 2015
- HUG-A-TREE 2014
- Mother Earth Day 2014
- International Day of Forests 2015
- World Wildlife Day 2014
- January 2014: Is consumption consuming us?
- Water of Life
- Generation AWAKE - WATER
- The problem with palm oil?
- You are KING
- Buying wood products
- Ebony & Ivory
- Forest Certification
- Behind the Brands
- The multi-million dollar question: Is forest certification working
- Just POWER!
- Rethinking Capitalism
- Please sign this Petition: STOP Landgrabbing in Liberia
- On My AGENDA
- Storytelling for Sustainability
- World Environment Day 2020
- Just POLICY
- 2015: Int Year of Soils
- Government Barometer 2014
- Public submissions
- Just plant a Tree
- Forests and Biofuels
- Lest We Forget
- Beyond 2015
- Our FORESTS - Our FUTURE
- Stop Climate Chaos-Climate Bill 2013
- AGENDA 21
- What You Can Do
- Current Advocacy
- Ombudsperson for Future Generations
- ANGLO-Not Our DEBT
- Stop Burning TREES
- Nature ALERT!
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- White Paper on Irish Aid
- DEBT and Natural Resources
- Fair Trade and Timber
- The Story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?
- INFF and JF join forces in education
- Environment & Sustainability
- Ombudsperson for Future Generations
- Past Advocacy
- Eurobarometer 2012 on the EU Timber Regulation (EU TR)
- 2015: Int Year of Soils
- Just MUSIC
- Public Procurement MATTERS
Ireland's Aid Promise?
Ensure that Ireland keeps its aid promise of 0.7% by 2012.
Saint Patrick’s Day 2012:
President Obama praises Ireland’s international role
On 20 March, Taoiseach Enda Kenny met with US President Obama, to mark Saint Patrick’s Day.
The full text of the speeches by President Obama and the Taoiseach are available here. There is one passage in the remarks of President Obama’s speech that we would like to highlight in particular.
That part reads:
“As I've said before, Ireland punches above its weight internationally, and has a long history rooted in its own experience of making sure that not only is peace a priority, but also that the human needs on issues like hunger are addressed. And even in the midst of a relatively austere time, Ireland has continued to step up internationally, and we greatly appreciate that.”
Ensure that Ireland keeps its aid promise: 0.7% by 2015
The Irish Government has made a commitment to the world's poorest and most vulnerable people – to spend 0.7% of our national income on overseas aid by 2012. That's just 70 cent in every €100 by 2015.
Despite this promise, Ireland 's overseas aid budget has been cut by €222 million , a cut of 24%. We are now no longer on track to meet our commitment and are falling behind.
These cuts drastically affect the lives and livelihoods of many vulnerable people around the world. For people already living in poverty - the people we work with every day - the economic recession will hit them hardest and these people are now being forced to pay the highest price for a crisis they did not create. These cuts are already having an impact .
These are difficult times for us all but we don't care any less about the suffering of others, we don't care any less about the injustice of global poverty and we don't care any less about keeping a solemn promise to people living in poverty; people who need our support now more than ever.
Just Forests is joining with other Irish development organisation to call on the Irish Government to get back on track.
We must honour our commitment to reaching 0.7% by 2015 so YOU can make a difference. Visit ACT Now on 2015 by clicking here...
- 2015: Int Year of Soils
- Government Barometer 2014
- Public submissions
- Just plant a Tree
- Forests and Biofuels
- Lest We Forget
- Beyond 2015
- Our FORESTS - Our FUTURE
- Stop Climate Chaos-Climate Bill 2013
- AGENDA 21
- What You Can Do
- Current Advocacy
- Ombudsperson for Future Generations
- ANGLO-Not Our DEBT
- Stop Burning TREES
- Nature ALERT!
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- White Paper on Irish Aid
- DEBT and Natural Resources
- Fair Trade and Timber
- The Story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?
- INFF and JF join forces in education
- Environment & Sustainability
- Past Advocacy
- Eurobarometer 2012 on the EU Timber Regulation (EU TR)
- On Care For Our Common Home (Laudato Si')





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