Pat Finnegan, director and founder of the Irish NGO Grian, talks to Climate-Change.tv about the challenge of increasing awareness of climate change issues in Ireland and the role of education and awareness in general. He also talks about Ireland’s special responsibility as a small and wealthy island state with what he says is a great potential for renewable energy generation. Also see Pat Finnegan speaking from Copenhagen, Bangkok in 2009, and Bonn in August 2009 and June 2009