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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: ...College Cork; Dr. Clare Noone, Maynooth University; and Dr. Deirdre McClean, Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Danielle Gallagher is also listed and she may join us at some point. I remind witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her or it identifiable, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...These budgets are consistent with a target for a 51% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions, including the land use, land-use change and forestry, LULUCF, sector by 2030, compared with 2018, and a long-term national climate objective of climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest. However, based on data for 2021 and 2022, early estimates for 2023 and projections to 2030, Ireland is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...bring broader benefits for health, well-being, nature and sustainable economic development. The State has a central role to play, supported through actions across society. A national vision and long-term integrated strategy can enable systemic change and maximise opportunities in all sectors benefiting people today and in future generations. The decisions made and actions taken this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: ...the idea has been suggested to the committee before - I do not know whether the witnesses worked on it - of a future generations commission, which other countries have established to look at the long-term benefits, how we shape our society in a few decades' time and the necessary action to tackle climate change. If anyone wants to speak about this at some later point, I would certainly be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Dr. Diarmuid Torney: Deputy Bruton is being very patient and I will not dwell too long. I wish to return to the Cathaoirleach's question about the future generations commissioner that he mentioned earlier. While it is not covered within the scope of volume 4, I recall that the report of this committee in response to the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...needs and various sectors can meet their needs. This is the missing piece in this to some degree. We have the framework. The climate Act is good but Ministers will come in here with one arm as long as the other saying they have not been able to mobilise the change they thought they could. That is the reality. We need to find something. As well as delving into the scientific...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...thank the Deputy for his questions. I could talk all day about all of this but I will try to limit my remarks. On the point about the climate action ecosystem, as he described it, we have come a long way. The committee members are at the coalface of these efforts. One of the pieces of research we reflected on in volume 4 was a benchmarking study I undertook that looked at the Climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... I will be bringing amendments to it later today. There is a chance for us to try to get research right through our new research infrastructure. How do we get that right so that it supports long-term thinking and public thinking? I am emphasising "public" because it can be the missing piece around long-term, public research for the public good and even public-public partnerships...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...of research funding contracts is often challenging. The small-scale competitive research bids with time horizons often of one to two years mean that researchers, some of whom are here, do not have long-term career certainty in their contracts. Instead, we need to develop strategic, transformative and interdisciplinary research across these really important societal challenges. We also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...is the big issue. It is emissions reduction that will have an effect on the short term. Any change we make on increasing the amount of carbon in soils and peatlands, in embodied biomass, is all long term and still has to be done. The Senator also asked how we measure the value for farmers. There is a whole area of research called natural capital counting. There is a big forum in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...One of the focuses could be on keeping an eye on these new technological solutions. Inevitably these new technologies will cost more in making cement than the existing technology, which is a very long established and entrenched, long-standing capital investment. Certainly State investment and incentives are necessary. This is not something like EVs, where a slight tweak in grants will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: ...by the river in Limerick and I have been able to see in recent years more flooding as the tide comes in at certain times of the year. This is just an anecdotal observation but I am wondering about the long term. My situation in this regard would not be unusual. Hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland are in what would be considered vulnerable coastal areas. The question is if we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...to the committee with that information. In terms of coastal planning in Ireland, there is not really an overall coastal management plan. This does somewhat inhibit the ability to plan for these long-term horizons. The planning often stops at 2100. We know, however, that even if we reach the Paris Agreement goals, the sea level will continue to rise for generations afterwards. I will...