Dr. Orla Kelleher:

I will come in briefly on the question of the politics. I certainly appreciate that there are major political questions to think about in setting higher ambitions, but we have to come back to the point we started with, which is that relating to intergenerational justice and taking into account the voices of young people and future generations. If we are serious about that and not just paying lip service to it, we will be required to think seriously about our level of ambition. Are we aligning ourselves with 1.5°C and are we doing our fair share? If we are not and we are just paying lip service to all of that then the danger of what we are doing is what Alec Steffen calls the politics of predatory delay, and we are just kicking the can down the road and foisting this onto younger generations.