Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have no doubt but that in the climate Act we have world-leading climate legislation setting out ambitious targets. Last week, however, the Climate Change Advisory Council identified a significant gap between climate action policy and climate action delivery, saying there is little evidence of necessary responses in individual Departments. Climate Case Ireland has today warned that the Government faces legal action if it does not publish the State's final long-term climate strategy by January 2022, two years after required by EU law. This morning I read reports that the ice shelf holding back Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is destabilising and that there will be dramatic change to the front of the glacier probably in less than a decade. The loss of this glacier would result in a sea level rise measured in feet, not inches. My simple question, which I put on behalf of my children, is this: are we going far enough and fast enough in this country to live up to our climate commitments?

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