Huge cultural change needed - Climate plan expected today

The long-awaited Government climate action plan will be launched today. We have, as recent elections and spreading protests show, deceived ourselves and betrayed our children on this crisis for years and years.

Yesterday’s report that we face carbon emission fines of almost €7bn over a decade frames this failure in a way that might finally turn platitudes into action. Accountancy might succeed where politics and science — and living in an echo chamber — have failed.