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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is a good example so I will dwell one minute longer on the IPCC report. I was a little concerned when Ms McCarthy mentioned that people prefer "positive" stories and "solution-based" stories. That may be very true in some of the programming pieces but when it comes to the news the fact is there is very serious news. We get breaking news about wars that are happening around the world...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is it. It is just on those questions around the engagement with the mandate, engagement with the regulatory process, which I understand is under way, and the questions of the how as well as the what. Perhaps Irish Doctors for the Environment could kick off. That would be useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: New regulation is being created and that is the context.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Its creation point right now is not compliant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: There is automatic play and multiplay on digital platforms. Each one has a different carbon impact for each form of advertisement made available for sale.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a tiny question because I see I have little time left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am out of time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----maybe he can answer with the others. I am concerned about always trying to find the positive piece. It is about international climate justice and difficult topics like loss and damage and inequality issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Maybe it could be addressed with others.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: He could come in as part of his response to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The issue of alcohol and tobacco came up. It would be a useful comparator to get the statistics of how much advertising they represented before the change came in. I know Ms McCarthy had a lot of great things to say on the international issues and perhaps she can follow up in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: RTÉ seemed to have a good breakdown of how much advertising there has been in those areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We will alternate chairing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The questions were widely addressed. Who would like to come in first? Do those who spoke last wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Talbot from Chambers Ireland might wish to come in to talk about that local level also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I know that Social Justice Ireland has come up with ideas in its submission today around that question of how those goals are linked and made visible within budgets or elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will bring Senator O'Reilly back in now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will pick up on one of the places where the discussion had left off. The discussion was about the small things making it visible. Sometimes, the very big things are what make it easier to communicate the many small changes. If the SDGs are downstream people may feel that it is all on them. Mention was made of the very good example from Wales making quite a different decision and naming...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: While we focused a great deal on communities and how we can get them to do more, I believe it is about the big actors and being willing to ask the corporates and big capital to do things differently as well. There is an idea that it makes it easier to talk about how we want to put in green energy and wind energy if we do not also see a massive data centre or a big terminal for fracked gas,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is quite shocking when we look at the failure to deliver on-----