Citizens’ Assembly set to debate climate change

The Citizens’ Assembly is to meet this weekend to discuss and make recommendations to the Government on how Ireland can be a leader in tackling climate change.

Citizens’ Assembly set to debate climate change

As part of their consideration of the topic, assembly members will hear presentations on the transport and agriculture sectors and from national and international academics and practitioners on leadership in climate change.

The presenters include Anne Graham, chief executive of the National Transport Authority; Brian Caulfield of Trinity College; Andrew Kerr, executive director of the Centre for Carbon Innovation and Professor of Climate and Low Carbon Innovation at University of Edinburgh; Professor Gary Lanigan, research officer with Teagasc; and Alan Matthews, professor emeritus of European agricultural policy.

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