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 Ruth Buggie:
Not to answer on behalf of the local authorities but there is a really good example in Laois County Council, where Portlaoise was funded under the original climate action fund to develop a plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. It has a really good roadmap of what it needs to do to develop renewables, around EVs and retrofitting. It is all there for their carbon emissions and its options. It is done in a really interactive way that is very engaging. It is a good example of what can be shown as a pathway towards carbon neutrality by a local authority. It was a climate action fund funded-project in the first batch. That is all available on its website and it looks really good.