Climate Change Tax policy must address growing transport emissions, climate council warns Transport emissions rose by 6 per cent in 2022
Energy Energy regulator likely to ban ‘islanded’ data centresEnvironment minister says connection of fully gas-powered data centres to gas grid is against national climate policy
Sponsored Facing the Future: How Irish dairy farmers are making use of scientific innovations to reduce emissionsSince 2015, and the abolition of milk quotas, the Irish dairy industry has grown, both in terms of production and overall herd size.
The Big Interview ‘2023 is a pivotal year’ – Ireland’s climate tsar on how to avert environmental disasterMarie Donnelly, chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, on rising sea levels and why she’s ‘cautiously optimistic about agriculture’
Climate & Environment Parking levies and congestion charges needed to reduce transport emissions - Climate Council chairClimate Change Advisory Council chair says people needed to be dissuaded from driving cars into urban centres
CLIMATE Taoiseach: Government will face ‘consequences’ if climate targets not met Climate change council says Ireland will not meet either of its carbon budgets without radical change
CLIMATE Ireland will blow through carbon targets without radical change - climate councilCCAC says government needs to address uncertainty around how Ireland will reduce its emissions
Infrastructure How Ireland is teetering on the brink with power, water and housing all near breaking pointMajor acceleration is needed if Ireland is to deliver the critical infrastructure in the €165bn National Development Plan
CLIMATE ‘Historic’ underfunding of planning must be tackled to meet climate targets, government toldThe Climate Change Advisory Council wrote to government highlighting ‘a number of elements of the planning system’ which would be ‘crucial to address’ this year as Ireland approaches climate budget mid-point
Climate & Environment CCAC warns urgent action needed on firms’ carbon emissionsEPA research shows we are on track to cut emissions by only 12.8 per cent by 2030 instead of government’s target of 35 per cent
Energy Electricity emissions need to fall by 18% a year, new data showsTo hit climate targets residential emissions will have to fall by 15% a year from next year while those in industry will need to be reduced by 14% annually
Climate & Environment State urged to set budget now for climate adaptationChair of Climate Change Advisory Council says cost of measures such as coastal protection and ensuring water supply need to be built into this year’s budget
Experts warn Ireland’s carbon budgets do not go far enoughAcademics to tell politicians they should push for more stringent restrictions than proposed by the Climate Change Advisory Council
Climate Action Bill to be signed into law after Ryan agrees to carbon offset amendments Legislation will be fast tracked to allow sectoral carbon budgets to be set by the end of the summer
It will be up to the government to set methane reduction targets, climate advisory body saysMarie Donnelly, new head of the body that will set the first of three five-year carbon budgets says there will not be a separate budget dealing with methane and the potential reduction of the national herd
Five Degrees of Change: Marie Donnelly interviewedThe incoming chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council sets out her vision of what needs to happen to create a greener and better world