Ireland has not delivered its long term emissions reduction strategy, despite the deadline for this having passed two years ago. All our strategies are reliant on technology that has not yet been invented or tested at scale (Oireachtas Environment & Climate Action Committee hearing)

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  1. Sometimes it does feel like there are a million green schemes but no actual progress is being made – just tinkering around the edges of a big pile of shite that will devour us all eventually

    Especially when we’re a tiny tiny piece of the overall issue and we can’t even get it right

  3. I really can’t see us hitting any of the targets anytime soon. No matter who is in power in the next 2-10 years, no party that will be in govt have workable or even believable ambitions in their manifestos.

  4. I don’t why we have the second most ambitious targets in the world… doesn’t make sense. Historically we polluted very little

  6. Gentle reminder that not only are the Green Party in government, but their leader is the Minister for Environment.

  8. Call me a radical, but we could spend a few billion on buying up all that shite unproductive ground and plant it in native trees (assuming they would grow there naturally).

    Emissions and pollution reduction ✅
    Tourism✅
    Green spaces for the plebs✅
    Wild life✅
    Flood reduction ✅

    But I suppose building a cycle lane along a motorway is more important…

  9. U write this from a phone or computer shipped thousands of miles from china on heavy oil consuming shipping. Not to mention all the material manufactured to make the phones etc . Look around u where u typed this from. Everything u see contributed to global emissions. So it starts wit u making the change, not the government, that’s an easy out.

  10. Not remotely surprising. Remember the outrage when varadkar said that he personally was trying to eat a little less meat than be did before. The most minor of climate action and yet people lost their minds.

    Pretty much sums up Irish attitudes to climate action. Great in theory, but completely unacceptable if it results in even a hint of possible inconvenience.

  11. One plan which I came across yesterday was to switch all kerosene boilers to HVO. The switch is low cost and the output would massively reduce the CO2 output

    This is something they are already doing in the UK and two Irish companies(Firebird and Grant) are behind it and all new boilers will support it.

    Not sure why something like this couldn’t be done to reduce CO2 quickly to a lot of houses which will never be suitable for A2W

    https://www.oftec.org/future-heating/republic-of-ireland-making-the-switch-to-hvo

  13. Sorry to be negative, but the current solutions for Climate, Universal Healthcare and Housing are all the same.

    The government promises to produce a plan that says it will be solved by 2030. I.e. that a magic government 10 years from now will deliver them overnight.

  16. Wait, so having the most expensive utilities in the EU was NOT part of the green strategy?! so WTF will heating cost when they implement the actual measures?

  17. What a shock. Is there any target (empty promise) they did hit out of curiosity?

    Oh wait – MUP and tax hikes.

    Shower of fucking pricks.

  18. Irish politicians are incapable of planning and delivering anything long term. Climate change policy and it’s implementation is just once example. Look at healthcare, public transport or infrastructure etc etc.

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