Results 1-4 of 4 for solar power speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...the German Bundestag has done. In 2008, they set out to become the greenest parliamentary building in the world when they made a decision to rely solely on renewable energy using water, wind and solar. There was a lot of refurbishment there in the late 1990s, including the glass cupola, and the roof uses solar power. In 2008, a parliamentary sub-committee set out to look for bids from...

Sustainable Tourism: Statements (13 Jun 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...I do not know how that idea would go down with the hotel chains who want to set up all over the place here. These ecolodges are big into composting. They use environmentally friendly pesticides, solar panels, and all-natural bath products. They also operate plant-a-tree programmes to offset carbon emissions. On renewable energy, as I mentioned, Costa Rica is almost exclusively...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (8 Dec 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...we do our bit to recycle and respect the environment and nature, we must acknowledge that it is a matter of life and death for people in the developing world. We in the developed world have the power to change this for them. We played a major role in terms of the sustainable development goals. Many of those goals are dependent on our getting climate change right. There is one goal...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned if the Paris goals are to be met. It is vital that we do more to phase out fossil fuels. Some countries are having success and are using more wind and solar power than fossil fuels. Given the fossil fuel divestment movement, analysts are seeing that it is risky to invest in fossil fuels. With regard to the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, will...