Declan Owens

Chief Executive Officer and Lawyer @Ecojustice Ireland Community Interest Company

IE

Ecojustice Ireland is a Community Interest Company, the purpose of which is to help combine the collective strengths of the trade union movement in Ireland with the environmental movement in Ireland, especially for the benefit of local communities. Ecojustice Ireland works with other progressive environmental NGO partners to catalyse the potential for strategic and meaningful collective action.> Ecojustice Ireland concentrates on Just Transition advocacy, campaigning, education of workers and youth, and liaising with local communities on ecojustice issues.> Climate change and biodiversity loss do not stop at the Irish Border so Ecojustice Ireland takes an all-island approach to the issues.> Ecojustice Ireland assists in mobilising the trade union movement and local communities in Ireland to help achieve (at a minimum) the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which include a universal call to action to protect the planet.> Ecojustice Ireland campaigns to ensure that Ireland meets its emissions targets, and it advocates for a Just Transformation of Irish society.> The services that Ecojustice Ireland provides include environmental and human rights advocacy; consultancy, mediation; group facilitation; promotion of the arts as a medium of positive societal change; education; and lobbying governmental bodies to adhere to the Paris Agreement and other international environmental law standards.

Trinity College Dublin

LLB, Law

University of Amsterdam

Master’s Degree, European and International Labour Law LLM

BPP Law School

BL, Bar Vocational Course

Mediation Northern Ireland

Mediation