Irish Architects Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency

The twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the most serious issue of our time. Buildings and construction play a major part, accounting for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions whilst also having a significant impact on our natural habitats.

For everyone working in the construction industry, meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift in our behaviour. Together with our clients, we will need to commission and design buildings, cities and infrastructures as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating and self-sustaining system.

The research and technology exist for us to begin that transformation now, but what has been lacking is collective will. Recognising this, we are committing to strengthen our working practices to create architecture and urbanism that has a more positive impact on the world around us.

We will seek to:

Founding signatories:

Vivian Cummins Architects, Paul McNally: The PassivHaus Architecture Company, Mark Stephens Architects, Zeno Winkens: Winkens Architecture, Maoilíosa Reynolds M R D, Isabel Barros Architects, Lester Naughton Architect Ltd

We hope that every Irish architectural practice will join us in making this commitment.

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A2 Architects ABGC Architects ACT Ailbhe Cunningham Aisling McCann Architect Akiboye Conolly Architects Alan Mee ALTU Architects Ambient Architecture An Taisce Anne Harpur Architect Aoife Tuomey architects Architect Philip McNeill FRIAI Architectural Association of Ireland Architectural Farm Architexture Architexture ARROW Architects Arthur Gibney & Partners AXO Architects BDP Box Architecture Brian Grubb Architect Brian Mc Elhinney Architect Bucholz McEvoy Architects C+W O'Brien Architects C.J. Falconer & Associates Caelan Bristow Caitriona McArdle Carey Associates Architects Carole Pollard FRIAI Carrig Conservation International Ltd Carrig Conservation International Ltd. Ciarán Cuffe Ciarán Ferrie Architects Cork Centre for Architectural Education (UCC/CIT) Criostóir Ó Raghallaigh Cronin Architects CUBETECTURE DESIGN Cunningham Heavin custom Damien March Darragh Lynch Architects DATUM Architecture Studio David Grace David Magennis Deirdre McDermott and Associates Delphine Geoghegan Develop Your Home dhbArchitects ltd Donaghy Dimond Architects Dorman Architects Douglas McGee Architects Dreyer Architecture DUA Dublin City Council Dublin School of Architecture EDEN architects Edmund Fitzgerald Selby Architect Eileen Cantwell Architects Eileen Fitzgerald eleanor sheehan architects EM Hogan Architects Emma Geoghegan Emmett Scanlon Eoin O'Keeffe Architects Eunan Mc Loughlin Architects Ltd Fergus Flanagan Architects Fine Balance Architecture Fionnuala Rogerson Architects Fionnuala Rogerson Architects FKL Architects FMP Architects Found Architecture Frankarchitecture Free Market GAIA ecotecture Gemma Ginty Architects Ghinlon Wang MRIAI Gilna Architecture GoKu Gottstein Architects grainne weber architects Hannigan Cooke Architects Haslam & Co Architects Helena McElmeel Architects Henry J Lyons Architects HLM Architects Holmes Architecture Horan Rainsford Architects HORGAN CARROLL ARCHITECTS Howff - Jenny O’Leary MRIAI Howley Hayes Cooney Architecture Irish Landscape Institute Isabel Barros Architects Islander Architects J e Keating and Associates Ltd Jennifer Boyer john flynn John Henry Architects John Masterson Architect John McLaughlin Architects Juraj Gaspierik Kane Architects Karen Brownlee Architects Kavanagh Tuite Architects Kearney Kiernan Architects Kelliher Miller Architects KENNETH HENNESSY ARCHITECTS Kenneth Hennessy Architects Kirk McCormack Lafferty Architects Laura O’Gorman Lester Naughton Architect Ltd Lightfoot Architecture Lightfoot Architecture Litema Architecture + Design Little Black Box Collective Livia Hurley Loic Dehaye Architects lotus architects Low Energy & Passive Architects Low Energy Design Magee Creedon Architects Mark Price Mark Stephens Architects martin murray architects Mary Byrne - ATU Mary Laheen Meitheal Architects Meitheal Design Partners Architects Mel Reynolds : M R D Merlo Kelly Metropolitan Workshop MHF Architects Michael B. Doyle Architects Michael Fitzpatrick Architects Michael Flynn Michael Herron architects Michael herron architects Micheál ÓDrisceoil Miles Sampson Architects Miriam Fitzpatrick MMXarchitects MOLA Architecture MosArt MPBA Architects MSA Architects MVK Architects Niamh Marum Architects nineteeneighty studio NOJI Nova Architects O' Connell Mahon Architects O'Driscoll Lynn Architect O'Neill Architecture Oar Architects OBFA Architects Limited PAC STUDIO pallas architect Pasparakis Friel Patrick Dunne Architects Paul McNally : The Passivhaus Architecture Company Paul Osborne Architects Peter Nickels Architects Peter Oakes Architects PHDesign Philip Comerford Architect Philip T. Brady Architects Phoebe Brady Portal Architects praxis architecture Raeside Architects Reddy Architecture Rhatigan Architects RIAI Richard Robinson RKD Robert Bourke Architects Robert Whiteside Architect Rooh Studio Sara Connolly Architect Scott Tallon Walker Architects Scott+MacNeill Sean Harrington Architects SFA42 Sharon O’Brien Simon McGuinness Sinead Cullen Slattery Design SONAA Architects Stephen Carr Architects Stephen O'Shea Architects Stephen Parker Architects Studio Red Architects Studiomove Architects Studiomove Architects superstructure + t o b architect Tadhg Casey Architects The Architects Tiago and Jane Architects TÓG Architecture TOT Architects Triona Stack Urban Agency VHA Architects Vivian Cummins Architects Wain Morehead Architects Ltd Walsh + Walsh Architects Will Andrews Design Winkens Architecture Wrkshop

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