Met Éireann Honoured with Climate Leadership with TRANSLATE—Ireland’s First High-Resolution Climate Projection Dataset

Met Éireann has been named Public Sector Organisation of the Year at the 2025 Irish Climate Change Leadership Awards (ICCLA). A cornerstone of this work is TRANSLATE—Ireland’s first standardised, high-resolution climate projection dataset. 

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.