Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will ask Ms Griffin to come in on the loss and damage issue from the Department's perspective. Senator Higgins is right that we need to strive for 1.5°C keeping it alive, which is the slogan of this conference. In all these targets, we are looking at probabilities. I think net zero by 2050 gives us a 50% chance of keeping the global average temperature increase below 1.5°C. There is a higher probability, I think 60%, of staying under 2°C with that level of emission reductions. There is nothing certain in this. We do not know where some of the tipping points might be in the climate science. We will only know after the fact if we cross one of them as to whether we will be able to maintain the temperature increase below a certain level.