He noted that Ireland became the second country in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency last week after an amendment to the“For me that sends a very strong political statement of intent by all the political parties in the Houses of the Oireachtas about the need to come to terms and really take ownership for this important area and to up our level of ambition as a country very, very significantly over the next 10 years,” he said.
Mr Griffin also said the electricity sector in Ireland is undergoing “unprecedented change” and that the climate action plan provides for a “very substantial ramp-up of activity and innovation and change” in the sector. “We’ve already stated publicly that we would achieve 70 per cent renewable activity on the grid by 2030. This is a major policy, regulatory and technical undertaking and will involve major development of offshore renewable energy, mainly offshore wind, the development of grid scale, solar energy and an increase in onshore wind capacity,” he added.
“The knock-on consequences of that is that we need to have increased levels of storage and interconnection on our system, we need to develop the offshore grid and we need a new planning and consenting regime and grid connection framework.” Mr Griffin was speaking at the launch of the first ever joint Nordic-Irish partnership between the Nordic embassies in Dublin and the All Ireland Smart Cities forum.
its a fancy term for austerity
Follow the money
What Ireland can do: -recycle much better the glass, not like now ,you have to travel miles, to get to a recycle point. -plant a lot more trees. -invest in eolian(wind) power turbines -stop thinking that is bigger and more important, than what it actually is!!!
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