Perhaps this news that our climate policies are paying dividends and starting to turn the tide on emissions will give some comfort. Nobody, however, should drop their guard.
Laura Burke, the Director General of the Environment al Protection Agency was beaming with delight as she stood outside the EPA's Dublin Office talking to me last Tuesday.
Perhaps this news that our climate policies are paying dividends and starting to turn the tide on emissions will give some comfort.The really hard work is still ahead of us. Politicians need to stick to the course. Much more can be achieved. There is nothing transformational about that - no changes to how we live, no gains in energy efficiency, no hard choices for people or businesses.The good news in this sector was not that emissions went down - it was that they"only" went up by 0.3%.
More electric vehicles on our roads were the second significant factor behind the low growth in transport emissions last year.
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