Climate transition must not be at expense of less well-off, EPA hears

Marie Donnelly: 'People can understand that in order to achieve the target for 2025, we need to take action now.' File picture: Naoise Culhane

The transition to a greener society must not come at the expense of the least well-off, but some jobs will be lost and roles will become obsolete, the chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council has said.

Marie Donnelly told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2021 climate change conference that those implementing change have to be honest with the population regarding difficult decisions.