Lessons from a decade of climate politics in Ireland
With the publication of the draft Programme for Government in Ireland this week by the incoming coalition of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, supported by Independents, Dr. Cara Augustenborg (UCD Environmental Policy) reflects on ten years of analysing and assessing Irish governments on their climate and environmental policies and performance in the latest in our Earth Comment series.
Cara notes the progress made by politicians in accepting and responding to the climate science in the past decade and identifies the positive environmental commitments in the policy agenda of the incoming government, as well as areas of concern.
