Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Professor Barry McMullin:

No. Ireland's climate Act of 2021 was world leading. I say that with no irony whatsoever. We have chosen to try to show what best practice in terms of bottom-up commitment of a developed country to the Paris Agreement would look like. The Act put all the pieces in place but the working-out of the Act and the filling-in of the details are missing. We do not really have somebody else to appeal to on how best to do this.