The annual review published this week by the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) concluded that Ireland was on course to overshoot both its legal target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half between 2018 and 2030, and the carbon budgets detailed to allocate this effort over time and economic sectors. The Council’s assessment is based on projections recently published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While the EPA does the scientific work of measuring emissions and modelling their evolution into the future, the CCAC is the advisory body responsible for telling the Government how it is doing in bringing those…

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