Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion

11:00 am

Professor Jennifer McElwain:

One of the things that came out of our group was the idea of bringing forward the legacy of the report. Many of the postdoctoral researchers are in precarious positions. There is almost a need for permanent staffing to create the next five-year report because there is such a build-up. This was a five-year project. There is such knowledge, but then everybody goes off back into their own thing. Having a secretariat, or something like this, then, that would carry forward this reporting structure would ensure the ramp-up would be much less steep in future.