Ireland's sectoral emissions mitigation achievement for 2021–2025 is much worse than the EPA report has stated Paul Price 21 August 2026 In the previous post, I set out some necessary caveats to the EPA's summary statement on national mitigation achievement over the first carbon budget period (CB1 2021–2025) that were not made sufficiently clear in its recent report, Ireland’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas
Did Ireland meet Carbon Budget 1? Some key caveats and why CB2 is the real policy test In July EPA issued its report on Ireland’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2025, stating that the first statutory five-year carbon budget (CB1) of 295 MtCO2e, covering 2021–2025 had been met: "Provisional emission estimates for the years 2021 to 2024, in addition to national total emissions
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