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UCC's main quadrangle building in the sunshine — UCC celebrates five Green Flags

UCC celebrated the award of it's fifth Green Flag from an Taisce at a special flag raising ceremony in the sunshine in Cork. UCC is the first University in the World to receive it's fifth Green Flag.

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Wild flowers with UCC campus in the background — Office of Sustainability and Climate Action

Winners of the 2022 Green Gown Sustainability Institution of the Year, Ireland & UK award and the Times Higher Education DataPoints Merit award combined with our Sustainability & Climate Action Plan 2023 - 2028, will further enhance UCC's reputation and performance as Ireland and the UK's "Green University".

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At University College Cork,

we are proud to be recognised as a globally leading university for the actions we take to protect our environment and society. The Office of Sustainability and Climate Action within the President's Office at UCC will deliver and communicate the outputs of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan 2023 - 2028 and will coordinate university-wide initiatives and programmes aimed at embedding an ethos of sustainability across the entire campus as we work towards creating a sustainable future.

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RTÉ 1's Ten Things to Know About features Dr Maria Kirrane and UCC’s A Brush With Climate Project

RTÉ 1 Monday 10 November - "A Brush with Climate" with Dr Maria Kirrane

Episode one of RTE 1's "Ten Things to Know About" explores why people resist change, from personal habits to community climate action. It utilises insights from behavioral science and real-world Irish examples to demonstrate how small, local shifts can have far-reaching impacts. This episode features Dr. Maria Kirrane and highlights the UCC project “A Brush with Climate,” engaging hairdressers in climate action to turn salons into hubs for climate conversation.

Read on 10thingstoknowabout.ie

Professor John O'Halloran, author of The Irish Times Article, 6 November 2025.

"COP30: As the window for meaningful action narrows fast, the stakes couldn’t be higher" Professor John O'Halloran, President.

Professor John O'Halloran, President of University College Cork, is the author of ‘COP30: As the window for meaningful action narrows fast, the stakes couldn’t be higher. ’ published in The Irish Times today, 6 November 2025.

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Mapping Climate Change - The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project

MAPPING CLIMATE CHANGE - Free Exhibition

Join us in the magnificent spaces of Horgan’s Quay 19th-century CIÉ warehouse for this first exhibition in its post-industrial space. Mapping Climate Change unites for the first time two innovative textile art projects from the US and Ireland that give visual and tangible presence to our warming world at a crucial moment of environmental precarity.

November 3rd (6-8 pm)

UCC Hosts Mock COP30: Students and Staff Tackle Global Climate Negotiations

In advance of COP30, taking place in Belém, Brazil, in mid-November, UCC is organising a mock COP in UCC on Monday, Nov 3rd. The role-play activity simulates the international climate negotiations. Everyone (students and staff) is welcome to attend and participate.

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G.08 North Wing, Main Quadrangle, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork T12 K8AF,

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