Who Should Attend & Why?
EVERYBODY!
Don't know how to get started? This is Irelands public event to help you. Do you want to make sustainable changes in your home? Or work place? Ever thought about installing solar panels, changing your car, how to recycle and reuse? Are you building a new home? National Greener Ireland has all this and much, much more.
Attractions to the show
- Innovative products – Tomorrows world
- Awareness and information on energy saving
- How to be green and reduce household costs.
- Eco Unesco Workshops for the young
- Celebrity guests: both national and international guests.
- Seminars from our guests and chosen exhibitors. Click these links for the Seminars, workshops, entertainment & attractions
Best of all, by attending the event a donation to combat climate change will be made in your honour, by simply arriving at the expo you’All have decreased your carbon footprint!
The role of trees in offsetting your emissions
Trees are green machines that act as natural filters of our air. Through the process of photosynthesis they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their trunk, branches, leaves, roots, soil and foliage, while releasing oxygen back out.
Whereas deforestation, degradation and poor forest management reduce carbon storage in forests, sustainable management, planting, and rehabilitation of forests can increase carbon sequestration. In fact the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation states “global carbon retention resulting from reduced deforestation, increased forest regrowth and more agro-forestry and plantations could make up for about 15% of carbon emissions from fossil fuels over the next 50 years (2006).”
Not only are trees an effective means for absorbing and storing the carbon you emit, they have far reaching benefits that extend well beyond that of filtering the air. Sustainably managed forests and urban forestry projects have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Forests are sources of wood products. They help regulate local and regional rainfall. And forests are crucial sources of food, medicine, clean drinking water, and immense recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits for millions of people.