This online workshop will help community groups to assess their own training needs to engage with their local peatland.
About this event
Connecting Communities with Peatlands is coming to your county. One aim of the project is to provide capacity-building training to community groups engaging with peatlands in the Midlands. In order for communities to get the most benefit from trainings, we are hosting self-assessment workshops in each of the Just Transition Midlands counties.
This online workshop aims to support your group to assess its own training needs to begin, or continue, to engage with peatlands.
Registration for this online workshop is free. RSVP via Eventbrite.
About Connecting Communities with Peatlands
The project is coordinated by the Community Wetlands Forum and Irish Rural Link, with funding from the National Just Transition Fund. The priority of the project is to provide community transitioning supports to community-led groups in the Wider Midlands region, which includes counties Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath, Roscommon, North Tipperary, and East Galway. The project aims to support community engagement with peatlands by providing capacity-building training, empowering communities to manage their own resources, providing a networking platform for community-led groups to share knowledge, skills, and best practice, and supporting the protection and wise use of wetlands and peatlands.
A Just Transition refers to the ‘transition’ or changes that a community experiences when climate action policies impact the community’s economic and social activities. Communities in the Midlands have been impacted by the closure of peat harvesting plants and the move away from extracting and burning peat for energy to establish renewable energy sources and rehabilitate peatlands for the storage of carbon, in line with National and EU climate action policies. This kind of transition can be very difficult for communities if the process does not include them.
