Ireland playing it cool when it comes to climate change

Ireland will fail to reach its 2020 EU emission reduction targets and needs to act if it is to do its ‘fair share’ in line with the Paris Agreement, writes Cara Augustenborg.

ONE year ago this week, 196 countries agreed to tackle climate change at the United Nations summit in Paris.

While this historic moment deserved to be celebrated, each country’s proposed greenhouse gas emission reductions were not enough to achieve the ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5C below pre-industrial temperatures.