Your suggestions to Cork City's Climate Action Plan can help the city and the world

Cork and Dublin are two of the of 100 EU Mission Cities. By working with these cities, we are showing our intent to play our part in an EU-wide movement to accelerate reduction of emissions and working towards a common mission across the world

While Cork City experienced 300 floods since 1841, we have witnessed more frequent and higher intensity extreme weather events over the last number of years. Picture: David Creedon

Cop28 went into overtime earlier this week as participants debated at length how to achieve the target of Cop 21 in Paris in 2015—limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels. 

While these lofty deliberations seem far from our daily lives, climate change is having a direct impact on Cork City on an increasingly regular basis. This will continue and we, individually and collectively, must act to ensure that our residents, communities and businesses can strengthen the resilience of the city to adapt and mitigate against the crisis that is climate change.