Cork (Ireland)
Project Overview
Cork City and County Council (Cork city) is the second largest city in Ireland with strong ties with University College Cork, the first Green flag campus in the EU. Cork City Council has produced a Climate Action Plan, as part of our statutory climate-action requirements and our participation in the EU 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission. This Plan sets out 129 actions that Cork City Council will initiate in order to reduce emissions from its own buildings and operations.
However, because this is a plan for Cork City, the actions that residents, businesses, community groups, and public sector institutions will have to take are a vital contribution to the achievement. The people of Cork have already made great contributions to key areas for this project such as Douglas Street, The Marina, Ballincollig and Mahon.
Martha Halbert
Cork City (Ireland)
WHO healthy city, coastal flooding, biodiversity and human health
Ambition
Cork City has great ambition for their sustainability goals. Being a WHO healthy city, they continually create and improve its physical and social environments and expand the community resources that enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential.
Population & Climate
The population of Cork is 222,333 according to the 2022 census with plans to expand the city being put in place from 2022-2028. There were 8,555 people living in Cork City in April 2022 who had immigrated to the city in the year before. In Cork non-Irish citizens accounted for 12% of the population.
Cork is situated on the southern coast of Ireland making coastal flooding a large issue. River flooding is another issue with dams being implemented already in an attempt to prevent this. However, these and the risk of storms will only get worse if climate change mitigation measures are not put in place.
Outcomes of Pilot
Biodiversity & Human Health Link
For Cork, GoGreen Next can aid in further understanding the linkages between biodiversity and human health in their local environment and partnering within the city to identify opportunities to safeguard future health and predict future risks and benefits further strides can be taken to implement biodiversity conservation measures to sustain long-term health of the city and region.
