Activists: Changes have  ‘gutted’ the Climate Bill

Despite the bill being the culmination of a decade's worth of campaigning, the coalition said, it is merely the 'starting line'.

There is little point in cementing the new Climate Bill into law unless it radically transforms policy and breaks away from our reliance on fossil fuels, environmental campaigners have said.

Reacting to the final debate in the Dáil to the bill, Stop Climate Chaos (SCC) — a coalition of civil society organisations — said that it is "time to move beyond climate rhetoric and into climate action" once and for all.