Political courage needed to address climate change, warns transport expert 

Computer generated image of the Cork light system.

Political courage, huge State investment on cheap borrowing terms for ambitious projects like the Cork light rail, and mass electrification of the remainder of the transport network is now needed urgently to tackle emissions.

That is according to one of Ireland's foremost experts on transport, Trinity associate professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering Dr Brian Caulfield, as he laid out what course the country needs to be on in the wake of stark projections of the effects of climate change globally.