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IEN/Environmental Pillar
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Irish Environmental Network – IEN
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32 members national environmental NGOs
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Facilitating members to fulfil their objectives
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Environmental Pillar
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26 members national environmental NGOs
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Advocates for Sustainability
Climate Change
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.
Recommendations on the Climate Action
and Low Carbon Development Bill
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Climate Justice
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Targets
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Governance
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Climate Fund
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Wider benefits
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Black Carbon
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 selfinterest.”
Climate Justice
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Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore at Climate Justice
event.
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Reflect this approach in law
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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
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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
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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
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Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012:
“The Government shall endeavour to ensure that
[the targets] are complied with”
Strong clear role for Fiscal Advisory
Council
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Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012:
“The Fiscal Council shall be independent in the
performance of its functions...
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“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
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accountability
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credibility
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understanding
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compliance
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Aarhus Convention
Climate Fund
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Reflects Climate Justice understanding of dual
obligation:
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reduce emissions ('mitigate')
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help mitigation and adaptation
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Scottish example
Benefits of climate action
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Public Health (clean air, activity, food)
Sustainability and environmental protection,
especiallly biodiversity
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Global impacts
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Food security
Black Carbon
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Climate and Clean Air Coalition
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Provide for inclusion
Carbon sequestration
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Capacity of ecosystems to absorb carbon
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Need to specifically address the potential
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Not an offset to allow continued fossil use
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An essential part of climate protection
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