Phil Kearney

Ireland Ireland

Researcher (environment, energy, climate) at CiviQ

Photography / Arts

Since retiring from practice as a psychotherapist and teacher/supervisor at Clanwilliam Institute, I divide my time between climate activism via the An Taisce Climate Change committee, EU research work with CiviQ and developing the farm in Wicklow. In 2014 I stepped down as chair of the Aarhus Convention's Task Force on public participation when Ireland passed the leadership of the task force to Italy. This work has led to my joining the management board of Nuclear Transparency Watch, a new Brussels-based NGO and involvement in a European research project on public participation in radioactive waste management. Collaboration with Peter Emerson, director of the de Borda Institute in Belfas...