L’Irlanda mancherà della metà l’obiettivo di riduzione delle emissioni, afferma il ministro per il Clima Darragh O’Brien
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/01/07/ireland-will-miss-emissions-reduction-target-by-half-says-obrien/
di zainab1900
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Ireland’s national target is to reduce emissions by 51 per cent by 2030 compared with 2018. In 2018, Ireland’s total greenhouse gas emissions were 61 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. The then government committed to reduce it to 30 million tonnes by 2030. The shortfall from the target could mean the State will be liable for fines running to as high as €28 billion by 2030.
Talking about the percentage reductions, he said: “We’re probably projecting in the mid to high 20s in emission reduction until the end of the decade. It is a somewhat significant amount off that target.” …
Maybe bring back EV credits? Increase the threshold?
No surprise, we’ve missed all targets so far and will continue to do so until we get serious about this.
But we won’t, and politicians know there are no votes in this. Before the last election no party other than the Greens had environment as a priority. People do not want to pay now for the future, they are focused on the present. We will end up paying a lot more of course, both in penalties and in the damage done. But that’s a future problem (even though it’s happening already with climate change issues impacting our lives) and it’s difficult for people to appreciate it now.
“Mr Martin Sir, it looks like we’re going to miss another government target…”
“Don’t worry, we’ve our best man on the job, he’s the best in the business at missing targets, a real pro.”
Yeah let’s make a commitment without any plan or investment. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 👏
Who’d have thought sitting on your hands for a decade would mean no progress… 🤷♂️
America just invaded Venezuela for oil, this is now about more than climate targets, this is about energy independence.
US output Co2 4.8 Billion tons last year.
Putting a man who thinks C02 is the name of a mobile phone company in charge of environmental matters is incredible work from this government
Is there anything to be said for doubling the national herd
The targets are not realistic. Presently with 50k people in coming into ireland every year. We need to power a city the size of cork every 4 years. Nuclear is the main green option in reality. It looks like gas and veg oil are been used. Not enough space for wind or solar onshore to power cities every 4 years. Not mentioning electric car uptake. Or heat pumps etc. Off shore in say 10 20 years they may be tech. At the moment they are in the deployment and test phase. Hopefully success there. But if you have been at sea in a storm these ideas seem plan mad.
If we think of it as doing more rather than less there might be some hope of faster reductions.
E bikes and e scooters reduce CO2 far more than electric cars. And the biggest impediment to cycling here is the lack of safe cycle paths.
Solar here is not nearly as good as other countries but it’s also quite fast to roll out. We could meet Ireland summer during the day requirements with a days worth of China solar power addition in May 2025.
Wind we take far too long to get built.
Almost no one is against better insulation for old houses.
There’s positive things we can do if we decide to
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power
This should be framed and hanged in the Dail
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Simply backing up more people to allow them WFH would be the best idea absolutely for everyone but yet they once again DO NOTHING
At 0.1% of global emissions I wouldn’t be stressing too much. China and the US are where it’s at.
Ahh cmon I drove to the supermarket in a massive SUV to return those bottles and then I flew as far away as I could to recover from all that effort with a holiday.
Why the hell has he been given another minister position?
I still don’t understand two things
1: Why the word “target” is being used to describe something that has a brutal punishment if we don’t reach it. A target is something you aim for, not something you HAVE to hit!
2: Why the EU thinks it’s anything other than an absurdly bad idea to punish an underperforming country by making it even harder for that countriy to reduce emissions in the future.
People vote out the greens and will now cry because we are missing climate change targets. But they’ll also cry if the government tries to move people away from carbon emitting activities or suggests we eat less beef.
When the SDs and Labour refused to go into government with FFG I knew we hadn’t a hope of meeting our targets. It was a long shot anyway.
Expanding population by certain means, lashing up housing, data centres etc, is supposed to be off set by heat pumps and empty cycle lanes across the board😂
The EU will fine us for this, and come out of your truly’s pockets.
Utter imbeciles.
Yet they cancelled the offshore wind farm projects. Make it make sense?
Tbh im genuinely surprised we made it that far
This minister never hit a target as he was placed to do so.
Well done to the Green Party for using their time in government setting these targets.
A ways to go yet but we are getting there lads!
Solar power is doing ridiculously well I have 3 neighbours with it who never have to actually pay anything their accounts are in credit and all generating back to the grid which is used elsewhere!
I know building new homes has a massive impact but all new homes are insulated ta-f##k and many more are getting solar if they all had them we’re easily be miles closer to the target.
Its now cows fault, cars fault, the odd bonfire, lack of cyclists, fast fashion its everything combined! but we need alot of those things and we’re getting better at making the other stuff cleaner.
Its not all grim news
When was the last time that Ireland met/actually planned to meet standards the government agreed to?
Should that not be the sack for a badly underperforming minister?