Mr. Oisín Coghlan:

I will come in on a more parochial level on the same point regarding fear of change. Pete Lunn and his colleagues in the ESRI have done interesting research on this. There is change aversion when it comes to climate action. When people are shown a map of what their town might look like when all the necessary changes are made in pedestrianisation, parking, buses, etc., they really like it. However, if you show them the process needed to get there, they do not like it at all because it is awkward and inconvenient.

The answer to that is political leadership. We need you all - not just Government and Opposition - and all of us to sell this to people and accompany people through it. Many things to be done on the climate side are actually beneficial. They will bring benefits right now, as opposed to some future abstraction, but they are awkward and help is needed to make them affordable for people. It is a societal project and needs social and political leadership to make it happen.