28 October 2020 Sanctioning government departments for failing to meet their carbon budgets under the new Climate Bill might not be “implementable”, the Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council said today. Speaking before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action as the Bill goes through its pre-legislative scrutiny, Professor Read more…
27 October 2020 The Climate Bill in its current state cannot be expected to drive necessary emission reductions, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action was told today. Client Earth Climate Accountability lawyer Jonathan Church provided the assessment in his opening statement, and warned that the Bill as it stands 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…
14 October 2020 The newly published Climate Bill faced its first round of pre-legislative scrutiny today before the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action and numerous issues from opposition TDs and Senators were raised. The Bill was issued last week with a number of provisions in it, including a requirement for Read more…
9 October 2020 It’s here. It’s in our (virtual) hands – the long-awaited, much-anticipated, sure-to-be-debated Climate Bill. Last week, we put together a checklist of some key things to look out for in the Bill. As big fans of a follow-through over here at Green News, we went back over Read more…
2 October 2020 Climate governance can be a tricky thing to get your head around, but it’s incredibly important. It sets the stage for economy-wide emissions reductions and it puts in place accountability measures, to name a few of its functions. And we found out last weekend that one of Read more…
January 6th, 2020 The Government has outlined the key aspects of its proposed new climate Bill that it says aims to drastically reduce emissions and put the country on track for net-zero emissions by 2050. Outlining the draft scheme of the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2019 this morning, the Minister Read more…
February 20th, 2019 The continued obstruction of legislation to ban fossil fuel exploration in a Dáil committee is an act of “environmental vandalism”, according to the Bill’s architect Deputy Bríd Smith. The Bill introduced by the People Before Profit deputy in November 2017 aims to amend the Petroleum and Other Read more…
December 18th, 2018 A climate Bill to ban any new licenses for oil and gas exploration now looks set to sit in a “procedural cul de sac” at Committee Stage after Fine Gael-led opposition to the Bill. Brought by People Before Profit’s Brid Smith, the Bill seeks to amend the Read more…
