8 June 2021 Criticism of the Climate Bill continues to accumulate from campaigners as the legislation makes its way through the Oireachtas. The Bill is currently undergoing Select Committee Stage, whereby over 200 amendments have been proposed by TDs. However, early on in the process Minister for Climate Action Eamon Read more…
31 May 2021 The highly-anticipated Climate Bill is up for Select Committee Stage this week. It’s come a long way from when its first iteration was published back in October. We’ll be following all the ins and outs of Select Committee Stage of course, but in the meantime, we wanted Read more…
28 May 2021 There’s been a lot of discussion lately around climate action and rural Ireland. It’s been hard to miss. So we gave Saoirse McHugh a call to get her take on it. She’s a three-time election candidate and environmental activist based in Achill Island, Co. Mayo. And without Read more…
22 April 2021 The United States’ new climate pledge “aligns with Ireland’s increased ambition” in the recently revised Climate Bill, the Minister for Climate Action said today. Speaking at US President Joe Biden’s Climate Summit, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan welcomed the pledge from the White Read more…
26 March 2021 At long last, the revised Climate Bill was finally published this week. We’ve been following it since its original release back in October 2020, and kept our eye on it all the way through its pre-legislative scrutiny. In December, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action issued Read more…
23 March 2021 A climate neutral Ireland by mid-century is legally binding in the newest draft of the Climate Bill. The revised Bill was approved by Cabinet and published today, and according to the Department of Climate Action, provides the framework for Ireland to meet international and EU climate commitments. Read more…
8 March 2021 Campaigners have warned that the delay in publishing the landmark Climate Bill could signal a late effort to “water it down”. Friends of the Earth Ireland said that any talk of the Bill appearing before St Patrick’s Day has stopped, despite the fact that Minister for Climate Read more…
21 October 2020 The recently published Climate Bill doesn’t have a “sense of emergency”, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action heard today. Dr. Andrew Jackson of UCD’s Sutherland School of Law, and who also instigated Climate Case Ireland, told Committee Members that he did not get a sense of Read more…
7 October 2020 The Government has published its much anticipated Climate Bill today with a number of features that aim to set out and strengthen national climate policy. The Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2020 was promised within the first 100 days of the new Government’s term, and is contains a Read more…
21 July 2020 EU leaders must use the “full potential” of the bloc-wide recovery funds to boost climate action, a regional environmental coalition has said. Reacting to the €750 billion COVID-19 recovery package announced by the European Council today, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe welcomed some of the ‘green’ elements Read more…