Ms Cliona Sharkey:

Trócaire's expertise is more on the impacts of climate change rather than on the very technical analysis that goes into drawing up the pathways and proportionate shares of different countries. I defer to colleagues with expertise such as Professor McMullin who highlighted that Ireland's annual emissions would need to be on the basis of 6% to 12% per year, compounded, in order to be aligned with the Paris Agreement pathway.

Trócaire is very attentive to the idea of an equitable global pathway to delivering on the Paris Agreement given the disproportionate contribution of rich countries such as Ireland to the problem, and the disproportionate impact of climate change on those countries that have contributed least and that have least institutional financial capacity to cope. Ireland's fair share contribution to delivering on the Paris Agreement involves not only domestic mitigation here, but also contributing financial and technical resources to developing countries to support them to adapt to the impacts and to ensure they can develop in a zero-carbon way. This is an important part of the fair share discussion.

While Ireland has contributed to the global finance commitments for climate action in developing countries and has, commendably, focused on adaptation or pro-poor climate action in developing countries, proportionately Ireland contributes much less than our EU counterparts. We would like to see this contribution increased, alongside Ireland's domestic mitigation ambition.