Lukewarm efforts to tackle climate change

We have a seven-year window to tackle the climate crisis if we are to avoid some of its worst consequences.

So says Prof John Sweeney, leading climate expert and president of An Taisce. But if the recently published government draft ‘Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013’ signals anything, it is the lack of urgency with which the Government treats the climate crisis.

Undoubtedly the challenge that Ireland, and the rest of the world, faces is immense. Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and moving to a low-carbon society is daunting.