Climate Change Advisory Council

In the public mind, 2030 has wrongly become the cornerstone of climate policy, rather than the imperative of complying with two legally-required carbon budgets

It is easy to discern a reflective personality and a strong engineer mindset in the man leading the ESB

Transport sector set to exceed emissions targets, including legally-binding sectoral ceilings in 2025 carbon budget.

New research highlights fundamental conflicts between Ireland’s planned industrial development and climate targets

Time to grasp opportunity in the electricity sector, says Climate Change Advisory Council chairwoman Marie Donnelly

Is Ireland’s new climate action plan the blueprint needed to transform the country within decades?

‘The sooner we become independent from fossil fuels, the better it will be for our health and the environment,’ says climate council

Climate rankings ‘disappointing’ but indications of improved national performance in 2024, says Marie Donnelly

‘My fear is the national narrative is making climate change to the 95 per cent of people who are not in agriculture somebody else’s problem,’ climatologist Peter Thorne says

Expenditure over the next seven years will be driven by electrification of heating and transport and retrofitting of homes and businesse

Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan secures amendment as way to raise climate finance for vulnerable countries and assist adoption of renewables

Cars are getting bigger and heavier, which is offsetting efficiency gains from technology improvements, says UCC academic

Wildfires in north America and southern Europe, storms of hailstones the size of tennis balls in Italy and flooding in Donegal - this summer has shown the growing risks from the climate crisis

Go to a garden centre and you will pay the same 13.5 per cent tax for a packet of environment-enhancing wildflower seeds as for a bag of peat compost, which strips bogs of their sequestered carbon

Extreme weather events will likely become more frequent and Ireland has to be ready to handle them

Varadkar says travel operators should ‘err on the side of fairness’ when compensating affected customers

Government will not meet its legally-binding targets unless ‘urgent action taken’

Cliff Taylor: Why do big infrastructure projects always take so long in Ireland?

Opposition parties, experts and campaigners say State remains well behind target

At a Time of Climate Crisis: Greenhouse gas emissions need to suffer a death by 1,000 cuts to keep legal commitments

Q&A: Carbon budgets, EPA projections and their implications explained

Regulatory obstacles may stymie State ambition on carbon budgets

Phoenix Park celebration of horticulture overshadowed by concerns around climate change, drought and costs

Climate crisis: Carbon budgets supposed to impose discipline through legally-adopted ceilings are highly unlikely to do their job

Plans to be brought to Cabinet by Minister for Environment, Eamon Ryan

Independent council raised issues in a letter to Coalition leaders and Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, on Tuesday

‘Big implementation gap’ and lack of political will are main obstacles to rapid decarbonisation

UN secretary general calls on wealthy countries to mobilise resources to keep global temperature down

Costs of carbon reduction should not be ‘shared’ equally but must be borne mainly by the rich

Observers and climate activists stress that implementation is now urgent

Emissions will continue to rise unless immediate steps are taken

Reallocating road space to be main driver for transforming transport sector rather than congestion charges — Minister

Climate Change Advisory Council raises concerns about lack of land use targets and ‘unallocated savings’

‘Strong political and policy support needed at a national and local level for rapid delivery of renewable resources’

Science does not recognise compromises and agreement is not not enough, warns scientist

Just 45% of 162 measures for April, May and June implemented as deal talks gripped in deadlock

Cabinet sub-committee on climate change met on Monday but failed to reach agreement on extent of cuts

Differences between parties over extent of cuts required by farming has delayed announcement of figures

Tánaiste says there is a lot of ‘scaremongering’ when it comes to climate action

Ministers for Agriculture and Climate to meet in attempt to set emissions target for agricultural sector