Will new climate change committee just be a load of hot air?

The Environmental Protection Agency has said the state is going to miss its 2020 emissions reductions target and is on track to miss its 2030 targets as well – which will risk incurring EU fines of hundreds of millions of euro

Climate action committee faces big challenge. Pic: RollingNews.ie

The colourful Belgian Green Party MEP Philippe Lamberts recently told me a fantastic story about how hard it is to take action onclimate change.

He had been working with IBM for 22 years. As part of his package, he had a company car with an unlimited fuel card.

But when he was elected to the European Parliament, he found it an enormous wrench to lose his company car. He freely admitted that even ...