May 2025

The 2025 Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference will take place from Monday 26th May to Tuesday 27th May in Ballina.

Global leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers will meet and give talk about the serious environmental challenge humanity is facing.

This conference will discuss the climate and biodiversity crisis as a part of a bigger crisis linked to our inactions and lack of courage.It will invite us to act differently both in everyday life and governance policy.

Connection to place, to nature, and to each other and more courageous conversations about the climate and nature crisis are needed.

The aim of the conference is to nourish attendees, as well as create fruitful connections and future actions.

This years, the speakers for the two days event be:

Mary Robinson

Former President, Member of The Elders, Dandelion

Anja Murray,

Policy Analyst, Broadcaster and Author

Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin,

Associate Professor in the School of STEM Education, Innovation & Global Studies at DCU

Dearbhla Richardson,

Youth Climate Justice Activist

Elaine McGoff,

Head of Advocacy with An Taisce

Dr. Gerard McCarthy,

Physical Oceanographer and Climate Scientist

Hannah Daly,

Prof. in Sustainable Energy at University College Cork

John Barry, Prof. of Political Science, Queens University Belfast

Prof. Navjot Bhullar, Psychological Scientist and Mental Health Researcher in the Health Research Institute at University of Canberra, Australia

Tom Arnold, Chair of Ireland Africa Rural Development Committee.