The Climate Change Advisory Council
An Chomhairle Chomhairleach um Athrú Aeráide
The Climate Change Advisory Council
An Chomhairle Chomhairleach um Athrú Aeráide
The Climate Change Advisory Council is an independent advisory body providing evidence-based advice and recommendations on policy to support Ireland's just transition to a biodiversity rich, environmentally sustainable, climate neutral and resilient society.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
PRESS RELEASE: Annual Review 2025 - Our Changing Climate in 2024
The Climate Change Advisory Council has said that Ireland must be much better prepared for the next major weather event, with improved monitoring of climate events and their impacts required to radically improve preparedness for and our ability to respond to rapidly emerging extreme weather events.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
A Colossal Missed Opportunity - Ireland's climate action and the potential costs of missing targets
The Fiscal Council and Climate Change Advisory Council issued this joint press release and report, which sets out potential costs for Ireland from missing agreed EU targets.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
CHAIR'S STATEMENT: Q2 2024 Quarterly Emissions Indicator Report
The second quarterly emissions indicator report published today provides a useful insight into how emissions are changing in 2024. Unfortunately, the figures reinforce recent messages from other reports that it is increasingly unlikely that the necessary levels of reductions are being achieved to put Ireland on a pathway to climate neutrality.
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Publications, Submissions & Correspondence
The Council has a wide-ranging work programme that provides continuous input to and assessment of national climate change initiatives. The Council produces a range of publications to support and communicate this work including:
- Annual reviews
- Periodic reviews
- Carbon Budgets proposals
- Seminar presentations
- Working papers
- Correspondence and other publications
Adverse impacts from human-caused climate change will continue to intensify
The extent to which current and future generations will experience a hotter and different world depends on choices now and in the near-term
Figure SPM.1 Panel (c) in IPCC, 2023: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1-34, doi: 10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647.001
Reproduced with permission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Marie Donnelly launches Climate Change Advisory Council's Annual Review 2024.
Marie Donnelly, Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council has launched the Annual Review 2024.
She said "We have the opportunity, now, to transform our society to a modern, climate resilient, biodiversity rich, environmentally sustainable and climate neutral economy or else pay the price of not meeting our commitments which will take crucial funds away from essential services. It is better to make the investments now for households, communities and businesses, rather than paying a large fine in a few years."
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