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Ireland Stepping Up Climate Action Following Court Ruling
New climate commitments follow finding that the country’s climate action plan fell far short of requirements.
Robbie Galvin
December 17, 2020
Clodagh Daly, a spokesperson for Irish environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), describes the scene when her organization took Ireland’s government to court in January 2019. “It was a four-day hearing, and it was absolutely packed. There were people from all walks of life. Artists, engineers, delivery drivers. There were grandparents with their grandkids.”
Schoolchildren at a climate strike in Dublin. In what has come to be known as “Climate Case Ireland,” Friends of the Irish Environment argued, successfully, that Ireland’s governmental bodies had failed to meet their responsibility to protect citizens from climate change. Photo by Garry Walsh/Trócaire. ....

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