{"id":1857,"date":"2022-07-18T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/failure-to-publish-sectoral-emissions-ceilings-deeply-concerning\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:20:22","slug":"failure-to-publish-sectoral-emissions-ceilings-deeply-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/failure-to-publish-sectoral-emissions-ceilings-deeply-concerning\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure To Publish Sectoral Emissions Ceilings Deeply Concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The government must stop its dithering and delay and publish the sectoral emissions ceilings<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The failure of the government to publish sectoral emissions ceilings is deeply concerning, according to Social Democrats Climate Spokesperson Jennifer Whitmore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unprecedented heatwave and raging wildfires across Europe this week have underscored the catastrophic impact of climate change \u2013 and why it is so important to act now to limit its negative effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, the government doesn\u2019t seem to understand that urgent action is required. The carbon budget \u2013 which provided for a ceiling of 295 million tonnes of carbon emissions over the period 2021 to 2025 \u00a0\u2013 was approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next step, the creation of sectoral emissions ceilings, was supposed to be agreed by the end of June. The deadline for its publication was then changed to mid-July. Now we are told by Environment Minister Eamon Ryan that the deadline has again been pushed out \u2013 to the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that fierce opposition to proposed emissions ceilings in agriculture is postponing the publication of these legally binding emissions ceilings. The government is apparently unwilling to demand that every sector \u2013 including agriculture \u2013 play its part. This is hugely concerning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plan, whenever it is published, will initially cover the period to 2025 \u2013 and we are already hopelessly behind on our targets. Last year, our emissions went up by 6pc \u2013 when they were supposed to decrease by 4.5pc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer the government delays publishing this plan, the more onerous the task will be for every sector to achieve its legally-binding targets. The government must stop its dithering and delay and publish the sectoral emissions ceilings before any more time is lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>18 July, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government must stop its dithering and delay and publish the sectoral emissions ceilings The failure of the government to publish sectoral emissions ceilings is deeply concerning, according to Social Democrats Climate Spokesperson Jennifer Whitmore. \u201cThe unprecedented heatwave and raging wildfires across Europe this week have underscored the catastrophic impact of climate change \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,268,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","category-jennifer-whitmore","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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