By Jenna Potter- 30 Under 30 Manager, Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful The 30 Under 30 programme, Northern Ireland Climate Change Makers programme was developed by Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful in 2022 as a platform for young leaders to collaborate, develop new skills, and strengthen their capacity to create positive change. Across the region, young people…
by Maurizio Liberante, Founder – Sustain Lab Not long after the pandemic, like a lot of people, I found myself overwhelmed by the scale of the climate crisis. I was reading more, listening more, and feeling less and less sure about how to actually respond. I tried volunteering, joined a climate non-profit, and while the…
by Lawrence Tingson, Sustainable District Manager – Linen Quarter BID My story started in 1984, on one of the 7,641 islands of the Philippines, a country of breathtaking beaches, beautiful people, and at least 18 typhoons a year. I grew up knowing that climate issues weren’t just news headlines. They were real life. They were…
by Siobhan Purnell, Sustainability Programme Officer – QUB When I was recently asked at a conference to think about something I had repaired and how it made me feel, my mind went straight to my Dad – and to being a young child again. Growing up on a farm in Co Armagh in the 1970s,…
The RE[act] Festival was originally conceived in 2019, after Linen Quarter BID invited the environmentalist Jonathan Porritt to Belfast. It was a really engaging day, which included a professional roundtable at Queen’s University and a public event attended by over 500 people. We wanted to sustain the conversation, create a platform for debate, and help…
20 October 2025: Following the success of last year’s RE[act] Festival for a Sustainable Belfast, the event is set to return from Monday 10 to Friday 14 November 2025, bringing together business leaders, policymakers, academics, and community voices for a week of events dedicated to shaping a sustainable future for the city. Organised by Linen…
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us at the RE[act] Festival for a Sustainable Belfast! Over three unforgettable days, the festival brought together a vibrant community of change-makers, with 40 diverse events that inspired action and ideas. We are incredibly proud to share that almost 1,200 attendees, including over 100 children and young…
By Lawrence Geoffrey Tingson, Healthy & Sustainable Manager, Linen Quarter BID The Green Economy places sustainability at the heart of development of and investment. It’s one of the most significant global transitions the world has seen in decades. LQ BID is committed to supporting local businesses to recognise the opportunities it presents. In basic terms,…
Calum Smith from Copacetic Business Solutions, one of RE[act] Festival’s supporter organisations, explores how climate change is affecting employment law and what HR can do to prepare businesses and employees for the future.
14 October 2024: LQ BID has today announced that its RE[act] Festival, a three-day event dedicated to creating a more sustainable Belfast, will return for its second instalment from Tuesday 12 November to Thursday 14 November. Taking place during the UN’s COP29 Summit to integrate Northern Ireland into the global conversation, the Festival is supported…
A brand new city experience for 2025 with an eclectic mix of talks, workshops and storytelling events dedicated to creating a more resilient and sustainable Belfast
Carol is Arup’s Global Advisory Services Portfolio leader and interim Europe Property Business leader.
He was instrumental in developing Arup’s position paper to define the circular economy in the context of the built environment and developing Arup’s work as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) knowledge partner for the built environment. He continues to work to raise the awareness of the circular economy approach from general first principles to practice by identifying the many challenges, enablers and opportunities available to Arup and others in making the circular economy a reality. Carol regularly contributes to Circular Economy and thought pieces, presentations and interviews globally. Most notably, Carol was invited to give a key note address to the United Nations General Assembly at their Circular Economy event, in October 2018.
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