Climate Action

From Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February, Shantalla in Galway City will play host to the Mount Lucas Retrofitting Rig, a fully equipped mobile NZEB (Nearly Zero Energy Buildings) training unit that allows training on energy upgrades and retrofitting to be delivered in communities across Ireland.

From Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February, Shantalla will play host to the Mount Lucas Retrofitting Rig - a fully equipped mobile Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) unit to deliver training on energy upgrades and retrofitting in communities across Ireland. The mobile rig will be based in T O'Higgins & Company Limited Homevalue, Shantalla, with free, open tours available throughout the week for anyone interested in retrofitting their home.

Galway City is participating in the EU NetZeroCities Pilot Cities Programme, a European-funded initiative aimed at supporting cities to reduce their carbon emissions

As part of ‘The Air We Share’ project, seven monitors will record air pollution in Westside with the data made available to the local community to ‘make the invisible visible’.

Galway City Council Arts Office invites sound artists to submit proposals for a grant to make a site-responsive artwork for the Galway Climate Festival 2024.

We are offering the Sounds of Climate Change Grant to a creative practitioner working in sound, composition, sound and music, or multimedia to make an artwork for the festival.

Galway City Council will become the first Local Authority in the country to eliminate road diesel in its larger fleet, by transitioning to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable fuel source. HVO Eliminates up to 90% of net Carbon Dioxide emissions and reduces harmful pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide and particulate matter, which can cause asthma and impaired lung function and can make it difficult to breath for some of our citizens.