What the Climate Action Plan gets right – and what’s missing

In The News: New plan intended to halve Ireland’s greenhouse gases in nine years

What’s in the Climate Action Plan, who will it affect the most and does it go far enough? Photograph: iStock

Fri Nov 5 2021 - 06:18

How does a country halve its greenhouse gas emissions in just nine years?

The new Climate Action Plan is the Irish Government’s answer to that question. The proposals within it, if implemented, will bring momentous changes to our daily lives.

So what’s in it, who will it affect the most and does it go far enough?

Jennifer Ryan talks to Jennifer Bray, political correspondent with The Irish Times, and Dr Hannah Daly, lecturer in sustainable energy at University College Cork.