Room for improvement in 'vague' Climate Bill, Cork-based academic warns

Specific targets are needed in the climate bill, Dr James Glynn has warned. Steam evaporating from cooling towers on a cold autumnal morning over the industrial estate at Little Island, Co. Cork, Ireland. File Picture: David Creedon / Anzenberger

The ambiguity in some of the language of the Climate Bill means that it will be impossible to gauge whether commitments made on some targets will be met, a leading academic has warned.

Dr James Glynn, of the Cork-based MaREI research centre for energy, climate and marine, said that while the bill was to be welcomed, particularly the attention paid to defining and implementing carbon budgets, it had much room for improvement.