Green Week 2025 is running from 31 March 2025 to 4 April bringing together students, staff, and the wider UCC community for a collaborative week of environmental action and sustainability education on campus. Highlights of the Week: COP29 Reflection Event – A chance to reflect on UCC’s participation at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and discuss key takeaways from the UCC delegation. Bike Doctor on Campus – Get your bike checked and tuned up for free by expert mechanics. Vegan & Vegetarian Food Vendors – Enjoy a variety of delicious and sustainable plant-based food options across campus. For details of the full schedule click here -

Register Free Attendance on Eventbrite COP29’s theme of ‘In Solidarity for a Green World’ set out ambitious aims to address climate change challenges. 90 days on, we want to reflect and look forward to what this means in terms of the actions we are taking locally. This online event will draw together academic speakers and industry and community leaders to discuss how research can address the challenges of global climate action. The lunchtime event will include a panel of speakers on the topic of a just, orderly, and equitable energy transition and an audience discussion. The event, co-organised by University College Cork (Ireland) the University of Plymouth (UK), and UMass (Lowell) (USA), will demonstrate how collaboration can be an approach to addressing global challenges.

BLÁTH aims to investigate the effects of the ‘no mow’ initiative on plant-pollinator interactions across four different types of management in the UCC campuses: highly managed (HM), fig.1, no-mow (NM), fig. 2, planted meadow (PM), fig. 3, and unmanaged meadow (UM), fig. 4. Sites were selected from two campuses of University College Cork (UCC), specifically the main campus and the North mall campus. Each site featured continuous vegetation with various plant species, ranging from three to over fifteen species. Different management approaches resulted in varying numbers of pollinator visits. The data demonstrates that highly managed meadows attract very few pollinators, while both the ‘no mow’, planted and unmanaged meadows show a significantly higher amount of pollinator activity.