Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will add a question to that. Others will come in on the idea of the pilots and how we make them be not pilots but joined up scale-ups. There is responsibility at local level for the sustainable development goals, SDGs. I am thinking particularly of Sustainable Development Goal 11, on sustainable cities and communities. Would it be exciting and transformative, do the witnesses believe, if there were a strand of funding going in at local level with very strong engagement by PPNs on that? That is an area where the ground-up approach might deliver a lot more on the SDGs. The piloting has been largely for things like awareness-raising versus the potential really big changes that could be led from the ground up on the SDGs, which are, of course, linked with climate.

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