Orla Kelleher: Does 2050 climate strategy give enough detail on how Ireland will reach net-zero?

Having delayed publishing the strategy for more than three years, the Government can now prove it is serious about climate action by enshrining a minimum target for emission cuts

The delayed draft climate action strategy was  only published after litigation was threatened by Friends of the Irish Environment and the European Commission.

AT the end of April the Government published a draft of one of its most important climate policy documents: Its national long-term (climate action) strategy.

A long-term strategy, it is a decarbonisation plan with a 30-year perspective. It should be the centrepiece of the Government’s climate mitigation policy.