Climate Change Advisory Council

Building blocks to a climate-just city

Policy silos, disjointed decision-making and lack of regional governance holds Dublin back from integrating housing and climate planning

Ireland facing ‘ever increasing threats to lives and livelihoods’ due to lack of climate change resilience

Independent advisory body’s latest report says urgent moves needed to protect critical infrastructure and coastlines

Private landlords need incentives to retrofit their properties, otherwise it’s not financially worthwhile

Lower heating bills benefit tenants, not landlords, while rent caps mean they won’t get higher income from letting out cosier homes

Improved support needed for householders to ease switch from fossil fuels, says climate council

Call comes regarding heating homes as independent body welcomes 6% fall in carbon emissions by building sector

Failure to curtail our greenhouse gas emissions could cost us two children’s hospitals

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

Decarbonisation of electricity by 2040 is on course, says ESB boss Paddy Hayes

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

Urgent reform of motor tax needed to ensure emissions targets are met, says advisory body

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

Regina Doherty comparing bike lanes to Berlin Wall a symptom of deeper divisions on climate

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

Planning changes must be finalised to ‘accelerate renewables as delays and appeals hinder progress,’ climate change body warns

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

Climate change: ‘How can we feed the world while not damaging it?’

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

State ‘unlikely’ to meet its first carbon budget and faces potential multibillion-euro compliance costs

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

Ireland should lead world on phasing out fossil fuels, says climate council chair

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

Agriculture is cutting its emissions but more momentum needed, conference told

‘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

Irish climate action spending to top €150bn by end of decade, Davy says

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

EU climate ministers back ‘polluter pays’ principle in agreed declaration for Cop28 negotiations

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

Argument for taxing cars based on weight ‘compelling’, committee to be told

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

How a week of climate hell has offered a glimpse of our future

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

Government needs to start preparing now for climate change impact

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

Justine McCarthy: Reforming our garbled VAT system would be a good start in the fight against climate change

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

Two firefighters killed battling blaze on Greek island as wildfires continue across Mediterranean

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

Climate change: Ireland’s pace of action ‘not acceptable given existential threat’, watchdog warns

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

It takes 10 years to build a road in Ireland, 20 for a rail line, 30 for a MetroLink. What are we doing wrong?

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

Ireland’s 2% emissions drop gets guarded welcome despite ‘horrifying’ rise in transport sector

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

Delaying climate action could make carbon budgets infeasible

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

Climate target ‘overshoot’ raises risk of legal actions and massive financial penalties

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

John FitzGerald: Ireland is finally taking global warming seriously but there’s too much talk, not enough action

Regulatory obstacles may stymie State ambition on carbon budgets

‘My carrots aren’t going to be happy when I get back’: Bloom gardeners fear effects of dry spell

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

Cracks in Ireland’s climate policy are becoming clear with widening gaps between targets and reality

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

Use of disposable cups and cutlery to be phased out in public sector

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

Climate body warns Government that delivery of measures not happening fast enough due to planning delays

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

Ireland’s stuttering climate performance brought into focus by IPCC report

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

Pressure on Ireland to cut emissions after IPCC issues ‘final warning’

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

Fintan O’Toole: Well-off Irish people do the most climate damage and must pay the price

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

‘If Irish emissions don’t start to fall rapidly in 2023.. credibility on climate will crumble’

Observers and climate activists stress that implementation is now urgent

Ireland needs bold action now to keep first carbon budget within reach

Emissions will continue to rise unless immediate steps are taken

OECD recommends major redesign of Irish transport to meet climate targets and improve wellbeing

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

Sectoral emissions ceilings published by Government for carbon budgets up to 2030

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

Climate council urges action to protect most vulnerable from overdependence on fossil fuels

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

Emissions targets ‘not consistent’ with Government legislation, says Climate Change Advisory Council

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

More than half of climate plans missed as agriculture emissions wrangling continues

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

Talks on agriculture emissions cuts to go to the wire

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

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