Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion

Ms Justina Corcoran:

That will be in the new plans. One of the first things they have to do is establish their baseline. They need to find out the starting point and then show how they have reduced emissions year on year. We want to be able to show how the local authority sector has contributed to the national climate objectives. If it is in our national climate action plan that we want to reduce emissions next year by 4.8% or 4.7%, we want to be able to see what the local authority sector has contributed, for them and for us, so that we can see where resources are needed, where work is happening and what feeds into it. It will be important to measure the delivery of the climate action plan.

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