Climate & Environment Irish emissions fall to 30-year low Early estimates indicate a significant drop in emissions last year but the country is still falling short of its targets
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
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 ‘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
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