Reacting to today\u2019s Supreme Court decision to quash the Government\u2019s 2017 National Mitigation Plan, Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Climate, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision should serve as a wake-up call for the Government. We need to act decisively and urgently to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and this means frontloading measures that will see reductions sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in the Programme for Government there are climate targets that will take 10 years to achieve \u2013 this is completely unacceptable. It is time for a new plan that will allow us to make meaningful reductions in the shorter term.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to stop putting climate change reduction measures on the long finger.\u201d<\/p>\n
July 31, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reacting to today\u2019s Supreme Court decision to quash the Government\u2019s 2017 National Mitigation Plan, Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Climate, said: \u201cThis decision should serve as a wake-up call for the Government. We need to act decisively and urgently to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and this means frontloading measures that will see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jennifer-whitmore","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n