Water Quality in Ireland 2025
An Indicators Report, June 2026
Year: 2026
This report looks at how Ireland’s water quality has changed in 2025, using the latest monitoring data for rivers, lakes, groundwater, estuaries and coastal waters. Overall, the report shows no major change in water quality in 2025. Nutrient levels remain too high in a large proportion of water bodies. Levels fluctuate year on year but are not improving overall over the long term. The biological health of our rivers and lakes has shown little change with slightly more than half (54%) in good or better biological quality.
Hydrology Summary Bulletin - May 2026
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for May 2026,, June 2026
Year: 2026
Hydrology Summary Bulletin outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland for the month
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 4: Resilience indicator development
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 3: Resilient decision-making
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 2: Just resilience
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Climate Ireland Adaptation Network Working Group 1: Technical definitions underpinning resilience
Year: 2026
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation. The four working groups were established to enable participants to share their views, practices, and perspectives around four key challenges for adaptation in Ireland. A primary goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The final reports represent the consensus from discussions of members of the relevant working groups.
Quarterly Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator Report 2025 Quarter 4
Year: 2026
This is the latest EPA report on quarterly greenhouse gas emissions for Ireland to support more frequent monitoring of national and sectoral progress on climate action. This series complements the national greenhouse gas inventory and projections prepared annually by the EPA. Emissions in Quarter 4 2025 were down by 1.3% on the same quarter last year. This was primarily driven by lower Electricity emissions (-240.5 kt CO₂ eq), partially offset by increases in Buildings (60.8 kt CO₂ eq), Other (39.0 kt CO₂ eq) and Industry emissions (20.8 kt CO₂ eq).
EPA Radiation Monitoring in Food Data 2016-2025
Year: 2026
EPA Radiation Monitoring in Food Data 2016-2025
Ireland's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2025-2030
Year: 2026
This report provides an assessment of Ireland’s total projected greenhouse gas emissions which includes an assessment of progress towards achieving its National targets under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and EU emission reduction targets for 2030 as set under the EU Effort Sharing Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2018/842).
Archived Freshwater and Marine publications
Year: 2026
List containing archived Freshwater and Marine publications that have been removed from the EPA website.
Hydrology Summary Bulletin - April 2026
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for April 2026, May 2026
Year: 2026
Hydrology Summary Bulletin outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland for the month
Bathing Water Quality in Ireland in 2025
Year: 2026
This is a report about bathing water quality in Ireland during 2025
Ireland's Air Pollutant Emissions Trends and Outlook 2026
Year: 2026
Latest report (2026) on Ireland's National Emission Reduction Commitment Directive (NECD) emissions. Five main air pollutants, NOx, SO2, NH3, NMVOC and PM2.5.
EPA Product Cert Sample Request Form
Year: 2026
EPA Product Cert Sample Request Form for submitting samples to the EPA radiation laboratory.
Climate Change in the Irish Mind: Engagement Guidance
Evidence-based approaches for climate messaging , April 2026
Year: 2026
The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ project (CCIM) is a nationally representative study of the Irish people’s beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours regarding climate change, undertaken by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The CCIM Engagement Guidance translates findings from CCIM into practical advice for anyone communicating or engaging with the public on climate change.
Hydrology Summary Bulletin - March 2026
Hydrology bulletin on rainfall, river flows, lake levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows for March 2026, April 2026
Year: 2026
Hydrology Summary Bulletin outlining the flows in rivers, rainfall, lake and turlough levels, groundwater levels and spring outflows of over 300 stations across Ireland for the month
SEA of local authority Land Use Plans - EPA recommendations and resources
Year: 2026
This document forms part of submissions we make on local authority land-use plans undergoing strategic environmental assessments (SEA). It includes: key environmental recommendations to consider; information on recently published relevant EPA reports; links to useful environmental resources for local authorities carrying out SEA of land-use plans. It is updated regularly and was last uploaded on 7th April 2026
Ireland's Final Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2024
Year: 2026
The EPA has produced final estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for the time period 1990-2024.
Early insights indicator report: Nitrogen concentrations in selected major rivers, January-December 2025
Year: 2026
The purpose of this report is to provide an early insight into nitrogen concentrations in major rivers in Ireland, in advance of the more comprehensive annual water quality assessments.
