Climate Action

BusConnects Galway

The BusConnects Programme is a strategic national-level intervention aimed at enhancing sustainable transportation across five regions in Ireland, including Galway.

Biodiversity supports life on earth and is part of all our daily lives. We depend on biodiversity for clean air and water, healthy soils, food, building materials, and medicines. Protecting biodiversity, both locally and globally, is a major concern for society and the survival of the human race, as it provides all the resources on which we depend.

Salmon Weir Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge

‘The Air We Share’ driving action on climate change in Galway City

12 July 2024

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’.

Call Out for Sounds of Climate Change

14 June 2024

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.

Picture of Galway City Council staff and Mayor

Galway City to become First Local Authority to Eliminate Road Diesel in Larger Fleet

1 November 2023

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.

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