Irish Examiner view: Climate change report should spur us on to cut emissions further

Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency reports a 6.8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions — but there is no room for complacency

The EPA's positive news about Ireland's efforts to curb emissions should galvanise individuals and organisations to press on tackling climate change.  

The blizzard of bad news about climate change can sometimes appear constant, a never-ending doom spiral of depressing missives that can only lower the spirits.

Hence the sense of surprise yesterday when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released some news that was not a guarantee of immediate gloom.