Transcript Climate Change & Ireland

Climate Change & Ireland
Ireland’s emissions
• Historic responsibility
for climate change
lies with richer
industrialised
countries.
– USA: 24 tonnes per
person
– Ireland 17 tonnes
per person
What’s been done?
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Carbon Budgets
Carbon tax
Renewable Energy Directive
VRT changes
Greener/Warmer Homes grants
Climate Bill?
Year
20
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20
17
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15
20
13
20
11
20
09
20
07
20
05
20
03
20
01
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99
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97
Emissions Mt
Emissions reductions
75.00
70.00
65.00
60.00
55.00
50.00
Stop Climate Chaos
• A coalition of 26 youth, environmental
development, religious organisations…
A coalition of 30 civil society
organisations
– Environmental groups
– Faith-based organisations
– Individuals
– Development organisations
– Community groups
….campaigning to ensure Ireland plays its
part in preventing runaway climate change
Call to action – 2ºC
Stop Climate Chaos calls on the
Government to:
1. Push for an international agreement to
keep the rise in global temperatures to 2ºC
or less. This means global greenhouse
gas emissions must reach their peak and
begin to decline irreversibly within 10
years.
Call to Action 2 – Climate Law
2. Ensure Ireland does its fair share to
prevent climate chaos by implementing the
polluter pays principle and immediately
bringing in a climate change law which
provides for an annual Carbon Budget and
3% year-on-year reduction in Irish GHG
emissions.
Call to Action 3 – support
developing countries
3. Ensure developing countries can access
additional, appropriate and adequate
resources to enable them to adapt to the
current and future impacts of climate
change.
Call to Action 4 – protect natural
environment
4. Ensure that national environment
considerations are integrated into
adaptation and mitigation strategies for
dealing with climate change
Countdown to Copenhagen
Countdown to Copenhagen
The Wave
www.stopclimatechaos.ie