4 November 2020 Genuinely delivering on Paris climate agreement targets will take measures like “the New Deal or the Marshall …
Ireland’s 2050 climate target: too little, too late
3 November 2020 Language of “degrees” and “targets” often alienates people from the climate crisis. Yet, while they might seem …
Ireland plays a “leading role” in allowing overfishing
2 November 2020 Ireland has played a “leading role” in the EU-wide failure to end overfishing, a new report concludes. …
Biodiversity essential to “address future climate shocks”
29 October 2020 Failing to adequately consider biodiversity in the Climate Bill could reduce our ability to respond to future …
Forestry: an emissions “source” rather than sink
29 October 2020 Ireland’s forestry sector is now a source of greenhouse gas emissions rather than a sink, a Department …
Sanctions for failing to meet targets might not be “implementable”
28 October 2020 Sanctioning government departments for failing to meet their carbon budgets under the new Climate Bill might not …
Current Climate Bill cannot drive necessary emission reductions
27 October 2020 The Climate Bill in its current state cannot be expected to drive necessary emission reductions, the Joint …
CAP vote rounds out a “historically bad week for the future of farming”
23 October 2020 The European Parliament voted against amendments to the proposed new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), “burying hope of …
Calls to reject new CAP grow day before crucial vote
22 October 2020 Campaigners have taken to Twitter the day before the European Parliament is set to vote on the …
Climate Bill lacks “sense of emergency”
21 October 2020 The recently published Climate Bill doesn’t have a “sense of emergency”, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate …