Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The recent UN climate change report has warned us once again that if we do not speed up our climate action goals, the damage sustained by our planet will be irreversible. However, we still have time to prevent an all-out climate disaster if we begin taking these goals seriously now. The UN is urging wealthy countries, such as ours, to speed up our climate action goals by ten years, to 2040. Without doing so, the UN states that our future generations will remain under threat. The ask is not unreasonable. Finland, for example, has set its net zero goal deadline to 2035, a decision it claims is based on science and equity.

Will the Taoiseach consider committing to advancing the advice of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, to set our climate goals for 2040? Will he talk about where we are now in meeting current climate goals for net zero by 2050?

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