Met Éireann has been named Public Sector Organisation of the Year at the 2025 Irish Climate Change Leadership Awards (ICCLA).
Wednesday, October 8th
The annual ICCLA event honours outstanding achievements in sustainability and climate action across a variety of sectors, with Met Éireann recognised for its role in advancing climate science in Ireland and developing climate services that support national decision-making and contribute towards building a more climate-resilient future.
Members of the Climate Services Division team with the Public Sector Organisation of the Year prize at the Irish Climate Change Leadership Awards
Speaking after receiving the award, Keith Lambkin, Head of the Climate Services Division said: “A huge thank you to our many partners at home and abroad, who are helping us develop and provide specialist climate information, to support climate policy, planning and action, across all sectors in Ireland.”
In response to Ireland’s intensifying climate risks, Met Éireann has broadened its mandate to assume a central leadership role in driving climate resilience and adaptation in Ireland.
Guided by its 2024–2034 Strategic Plan, Met Éireann has embedded climate services at the forefront its work. In establishing a dedicated Climate Services Division, the development of the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) and sustained engagement across government sectors, the organisation is working to ensure that climate resilience is strategically and operationally integrated into national planning. A cornerstone of this work is TRANSLATE—Ireland’s first standardised, high-resolution climate projection dataset.
Keith Lambkin speaking after receiving the Public Sector Organisation of the Year prize on behalf of Met Éireann at the 2025 Irish Climate Change Leadership Awards
Met Éireann also works closely with local authorities, emergency management bodies, and sectoral bodies to produce flood forecasts and guidance, infrastructure vulnerability assessments, and high-impact weather warnings. Its services are used across sectors including water, energy, heritage, agriculture and finance.
About the NFCS
Through the development of the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS), Met Éireann has established a mechanism that connects climate data producers with end-users in policy, planning, and infrastructure.
The NFCS ensures that all sectors in Ireland operate from a unified, evidence-based understanding of climate risk, ultimately enabling national adaptation. These efforts have been recognised internationally in the 2024 UN State of Climate Services report, which cited Ireland’s NFCS as an exemplar of coordinated national service delivery.
About TRANSLATE
TRANSLATE provides Ireland’s first high resolution standardised projections for Ireland and was developed in collaboration with University of Galway–Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), University College Cork–SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine (MaREI) and supported by Met Éireann climatologists., TRANSLATE underpins major national strategies, including the Climate Action Plan, National Adaptation Framework, Sectoral Adaptation Plans and the National Climate Change Risk Assessment.
The TRANSLATE project has already helped shape real-world policy. For example, in collaboration with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), Met Éireann supported a study revealing that existing road drainage standards may not be sufficient under future rainfall conditions. This led to a national revision of infrastructure guidelines, exemplifying science-based adaptation in action.
For further details on the NFCS, TRANSLATE, or any other initiatives of the Climate Services Division, please contact enquiries@met.ie.