Taoiseach’s lack of commitment on climate targets is shameful

We may be a small brick in the wall against climate change but if we fall we destabilise the structure, writes Victoria White

HOW wrong I was when I said here last week that Irish people got what they voted for when it came to action on climate change! The Irish people didn’t vote for shame and that’s what they’ve got at the COP21 conference in Paris.

What a national humiliation it was on Tuesday to hear our Taoiseach telling the assembled nations of Earth that the climate challenge requires action from countries “big and small”, before moving swiftly on to the voodoo which will lead to “carbon neutrality in the land sector that does not compromise our capacity for food production”.