Others(Climate mitigation measures)

The Irish Government have committed to introduce a Climate Action (Amendment) Bill to Parliament by end of 2020. The objective of the Bill is to build on the existing 2015 Act and provide for a significantly strengthened statutory framework for governance of the climate challenge and to ensure continual long-term planning for the realisation of Ireland’s 2050 vision, enforcing climate targets and reporting progress on the way, including but not limited to :
• establishing a 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions reduction target in law;
• establishing the Climate Action Council as a successor organisation to the Climate Change Advisory Council with implications for revised governance and remit, including advising on economy-wide carbon budgets;
• making the adoption of carbon budgets a legal requirement;
• requiring the Government to set a economy wide decarbonisation target range for each sector.
• establishing that the Climate Action Plan shall be updated annually, with actions in every sector;
• ensuring that the proposed governance arrangements retain sufficient flexibility to allow necessary reorientation of policy in the light of changing technologies, circumstances, challenges and opportunities over the period to 2030 and beyond; and
This will provide security and transparency and importantly enhance achievement of Ireland’s long-term climate objectives.

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