The world is ‘boiling’ according to the UN General Secretary, Antonio Guterres. We need a radical overhaul of a system addicted to profit at all costs.
In Ireland, the climate action strategy has been shown to be an abject failure and that is according to a report from the Climate Change Advisory Council.
We need policies like
- Free, frequent, and green public transport – with a massive investment in buses and transport infrastructure across the country
- A ban on further provision of data centres
- A cut to the dairy herd and incentivise small and family farms to restore biodiversity
- A massive investment in retrofitting of homes and public buildings
The Green Party has failed to tackle Ireland’s emissions. This government has not reduced emissions by any meaningful amount.
Bríd Smith TD said, “We cannot continue to have Minister Ryan and the government string us along with vague promises that Ireland will meet its climate targets. What is happening is that the government is continuing to fail to meet its own inadequate climate targets while the world burns.”
“What we need is for radical action on transport emissions through transformative investment in green public transport, that is free. We need to ban further construction of data centres which are gobbling up huge amounts of energy. And we need to tackle the issue of agricultural emissions – we need to cut the herd and incentivise small and family farms to become custodians of biodiversity; along with the need to retrofit our housing and building stock.”
