Ireland is the second country to declare a climate emergency, just 10 days after the British Parliament. A measure that should provide a political basis for possible actions to slow global warming.
This state of climate emergency will enable Parliament to examine how the Irish government can improve its response to the problem of biodiversity loss. We now have cross-party support to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. said the Irish Parliament
This state of emergency should speed things up and force the government to commit to concrete results.
Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced that his roadmap is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050, compared with 1990 levels. An ambitious gamble that has been greeted with great enthusiasm by the international community.
Among other possible measures, the protection of the Irish coastline and its oceans was also discussed. The management of selective sorting and the reduction of pollution linked to plastic waste are also under discussion.
In the long term, these measures could have a snowball effect, convincing other countries around the world to follow suit. This state of climate emergency follows a recent report claiming that over a million species are currently threatened with extinction as a result of pollution and global warming.
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