Emission impossible: Where is the Climate Action Bill?
The ambitious bill committing Ireland to net zero emissions by 2050, a key Green demand for forming a government last June, has still not appeared, with whispers of complaints emerging from every side of the negotiating table
In the early hours of Monday, June 15 of last year, the long and torturous talks on forming a new government were coming to a head.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s negotiators had already agreed to the Green Party’s key demand of a new Climate Action Bill that would commit Ireland to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the question of how much of a role agriculture should play was proving particularly contentious.
