Dear John,

2021 has been a landmark year for Irish climate policy with the passing of the climate law after a 14 year campaign coordinated by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, the preparation of Ireland’s first ever 5-year Carbon Budgets by the Climate Change Advisory Council and the publication of the new Climate Action Plan by the Government.

But what does 2022 hold, John? It’s the year where we need to move from Plan to action. Where headline policies need to become concrete schemes. And where every sector will be jostling to protect their interests.

Join us at 7pm on Monday 13th December for the last Stop Climate Chaos webinar of the year. Our expert panel will explore the path ahead. What are the milestones and staging posts in 2022? What do different sectors need to do? What are the obvious speedbumps and how to we get over them? How do we include under-represented voices and protect the most vulnerable? And what are the political pitfalls, and opportunities, of trying to cut Ireland’s climate pollution in half in 9 years?

We have a great line up of speakers for you:

• Dr Cara Augustenborg, Environmental Policy Fellow at University College Dublin, UCD and Member of the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC)
• Dr Hannah Daly, Lecturer, Sustainable Energy and Energy Systems Modelling, UCC and member of the Carbon Budgets Committee of the CCAC
• Dr Ciara Murphy, Environmental Policy Advocate, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. Member of the Steering Committee of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition
• Pat Leahy, Political Editor, The Irish Times.

I’ll be in the chair, as Secretariat Coordinator of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition. 

I hope you’ll join me next Monday.

In hope,

Oisín Coghlan

Secretariat Coordinator, Stop Climate Chaos Coalition

Stop Climate Chaos is a coalition of civil society organizations campaigning to ensure Ireland does its fair share to tackle the causes and consequences of climate change.