RTÉ HAS PAID tribute to presenter Duncan Stewart as Eco Eye comes to a close after 21 seasons. 

Eco Eye on RTÉ One has highlighted Ireland’s environmental and sustainability issues over the past 21 years, aiming to keep viewers informed of the major challenges, as well as giving insights into some of the solutions being tried both in Ireland and across Europe.

Presented by Duncan Stewart and more recently by a team of presenters, RTÉ has announced the series is now drawing to a close after 21 seasons. 

RTÉ said it is working to build on its environment and sustainability content with a number of new series to be delivered over the coming years.

Paying tribute to Stewart, RTÉ director of content Jim Jennings said: “Duncan Stewart has been a guiding light on climate and sustainability for the past 21 years, long before it was the hot topic it has rightly become.

“Through Eco Eye and before that, About the House, Duncan Stewart and Earth Horizon Productions played a really important role in bringing issues into the public domain, promoting awareness of the challenges we are facing and also giving us insights into potential solutions”.

Jennings said Stewart has been “a tireless advocate and educator on climate and sustainability issues and we are extremely grateful to him for sharing his expertise knowledge and enthusiasm with our audiences for the past 21 years”.

“We look forward to building on this legacy as we continue to expand our climate coverage working with Earth Horizon and other production companies on a wide range of forthcoming series.” 

The final episode of Eco Eye will be broadcast tomorrow on RTÉ One.

RTÉ recently undertook a public call for a new climate and sustainability series to replace Eco Eye. Details of this new series – which will run on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player in Autumn – will be announced later this year.

Earth Horizon, the production company that produced Eco Eye, has just started pre-production on three documentaries about climate change and sustainability set to be delivered in 2024.