Transport is the key to Kyoto, says Labour

LABOUR last night demanded major investment in public transport as a way to tempt people out of their cars and reduce Ireland’s spiralling greenhouse gas emissions.

The party’s environment spokesman Eamon Gilmore warned immediate action was needed if the country was to get a grip on pollution and meet its Kyoto Accord obligations.

The call came in the wake of a damning environmental report showing Ireland was pumping nearly twice the additional amount of global warming pollution into the atmosphere permitted under the clean energy treaty.