Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Challenge and Opportunity for Local Authorities in Climate Action: Discussion
Mr. David Dodd:
I will comment briefly on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities, which are among the larger local authorities in the country. They are slightly different as, since 2019, they have prepared climate change action plans through working with Codema. Those include adaptation and mitigation actions. As Mr. Mahon stated, there are several other local authorities that have mitigation elements in their climate adaptation or climate action plans. The vast majority are just adaptation actions. In the context of Dublin, the targets and actions that are already there in terms of retrofitting public buildings, social housing, etc., are already being taken into account in the context of the city and county development plans in the Dublin region. A similar situation pertains in other regions that already have mitigation targets included.