IEN/Environmental Pillar

• Irish Environmental Network – IEN

• 32 members national environmental NGOs

• Facilitating members to fulfil their objectives

• Environmental Pillar

• 26 members national environmental NGOs

• Advocates for Sustainability

Climate change remains the defining challenge of our age. The Environmental Pillar is working to map a path to a sustainable future, which addresses not just decarbonisation but also energy security, economic competitiveness and social cohesion.

Climate Change

Recommendations on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill

• Climate Justice

• Targets

• Governance

• Climate Fund

• Wider benefits

• Black Carbon

• Sequestration

Climate Justice

“Although climate change threatens all countries, it is the world’s poorest and most vulnerable that suffer most and can cope least. And they are the people who have contributed least to its cause.

“This is an injustice, pure and simple. It is morally wrong that the poorest in the world pay in some cases with their lives for the centrally-heated and air-conditioned comfort of the better off. It is not sustainable in a world more interconnected than at any other time in history. It must be addressed – for reasons of morality and of self-interest. Because in our world today, the common interest is our self-interest.”

Climate Justice• Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore at Climate Justice

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• Reflect this approach in law

• Maybe base on Article 3.1 of UNFCCC:

“The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.”

Targets

• Drive Government, Departments and Agencies to undertake the challenge of transition

• Give confidence for long-term investment decisions towards the low-carbon climate resilient environmentally sustainable economy.

Governance

• Looked at from 2050 which will seem more important – the climate crisis or the fiscal crisis?

• Use the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012 as a model for strong climate policy governance.

Clear obligation to work towards targets

• Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012:

“The Government shall endeavour to ensure that [the targets] are complied with”

Strong clear role for Fiscal Advisory Council

• Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012:

“The Fiscal Council shall be independent in the performance of its functions...

• “The Fiscal Council shall monitor and at least once in each year provide an assessment of whether any obligation under...is being complied with”

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Public scrutiny

• accountability

• credibility

• understanding

• compliance

• Aarhus Convention

Climate Fund

• Reflects Climate Justice understanding of dual obligation:

• reduce emissions ('mitigate')

• help mitigation and adaptation

• Scottish example

Benefits of climate action

• Public Health (clean air, activity, food)

• Sustainability and environmental protection, especiallly biodiversity

• Global impacts

• Food security

Black Carbon

• Climate and Clean Air Coalition

• Provide for inclusion

Carbon sequestration

• Capacity of ecosystems to absorb carbon

• Need to specifically address the potential

• Not an offset to allow continued fossil use

• An essential part of climate protection

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Imlíne An Tríú

Leibhéal ImlíneAn Cheathrú

Leibhéal Imlíne An Cúigiú

Leibhéal Imlíne

An Séú Leibhéal Imlíne

An Seachtú Leibhéal Imlíne

An tOchtú Leibhéal Imlíne

• An Naoú Leibhéal ImlíneClick to edit Master text styles– Second level

• Third level

– Fourth level

» Fifth level

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