Sharon Higgins: How Irish factories plan to meet their climate change obligations

Ireland must break the link between growing economies and populations and the environmental harm that they can entail, writes Ibec director of membership and sectors Sharon Higgins.

Government and industry must collaborate to reduce the dependency on carbon. File image: iStock

Spanning successful indigenous companies to large-scale global companies, Irish manufacturing is one of the high-performing engines of our economy. However, this is shaping up to be a pivotal decade for emissions and climate change, as well as many other challenges.  

Having emerged from the financial recession a decade ago, Ireland has encountered a pandemic, the great challenge of climate change, changes to the global tax regime, and Brexit.