Ireland’s CO2 emissions have been estimated to be between 0.1 to 0.094% of the worlds contribution. Why is this not being taken into account with our climate goals?

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1. Because everyone needs to do their part. Just because we done make our own cars or fridges etc. We don’t have much in the way of heavy industries or resource extraction. Doesn’t mean we don’t still consume all those things

   You can’t export your carbon footprint like we largely do, and then claim it isn’t your problem.

2. Carbon taxes on imports will make a bigger difference, lots of emissions have been exported to eg China. Same with Britain/US.

3. Ireland may be 0.1% of the world’s CO2 emissions but Ireland is 0.06% of the world’s population. That means we produce between 1.5 – 1.6 times the average per capita.

4. Ireland was a dreary hole before technology came here now some clown on here suggests below we make things more expensive again than they already are.

   Everyone’s carbon footprint is all over the world.
   Doing your bit nonsense. We can’t even recycle properly throwing our glass bottles into bins and breaking them for example.

   Our solution is to surround the country with wind and fill it with solar. There’s no appetite to do that. Don’t believe that cutting your consumption of red meat or anything like that in a country this small will do anything in the grand scheme.

5. Is it because Irish cow farts are extra smelly?

6. Totally agree its pointless we’d be better off putting our efforts into improving biodiversity it’s something we can all see and would be a positive win. There could be a side effect of reducing emissions

7. > Ireland’s CO2 emissions have been estimated to be between 0.1 to 0.094% of the worlds contribution. Why is this not being taken into account with our climate goals?

   Ok then. What goal do you suggest that absorbs that fact?

8. Why would this be taken into account? Everything is in percentage reductions, not “Ireland you need to cut the same absolute amount as Germany”