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To: All TDs in Dáil Éireann
End the Energy Crises: Support the Earth Day Motion
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Wednesday 22 April is Earth Day, a day where people everywhere are called to defend our shared home.
The ongoing crisis in the Middle East shows that fossil fuels are expensive, dirty, and drive conflict across the globe.
Wednesday 22 April is Earth Day, a day where people everywhere are called to defend our shared home.
The ongoing crisis in the Middle East shows that fossil fuels are expensive, dirty, and drive conflict across the globe.
To mark Earth Day, the Green Party is bringing a motion to the Dáil on the climate and biodiversity emergency. The motion will have four central asks of the Government:
- Re-commit to its 2030 climate targets.
- Cease legislative efforts to undermine the critical Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act.
- Implement the recommendations of the Independent Advisory Committee on Nature Restoration, adequately fund Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan.
- Protect vulnerable households from the ongoing fossil fuel price crisis through new targeted supports and safeguards, by speeding up access to home energy upgrades, and by ensuring that Ireland develops its own secure and clean renewable energy.
I want to call on all TDs in the Dáil to support this motion and to put real climate action back on the political agenda.
On Wednesday the 22nd of April we will be gathering outside of Leinster House at 5.30pm to call on all TDs to support this motion. Please join us there!
Why is this important?
The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has demonstrated that the objective of affordable, secure and decarbonised energy cannot be met through importation of fossil fuels which are carbon intensive and subject to rapid price shocks.
Climate change and its consequences are and will continue to have profound effects on human health and the wellbeing of future generations.
In confronting the fact that 29% of Irish households are in energy poverty, we must ensure that in moving to a net-zero Ireland we adhere to the principles of a Just Transition, and must reach those furthest behind first.
Energy crises disproportionately impact the most marginalised, including one parent families, carers, disabled people, and older people, and are driven by an energy system that is too reliant on expensive imported fossil fuels.
The Government has been backtracking on climate action in recent months; Government Ministers have suggested in the media that they won't meet our legally binding climate targets, and several pieces of legislation undermining the Climate Act have been published, including one that proposes to build an LNG terminal in Ireland, which will lock us into importing unreliable and dirty fossil fuels.
Climate change and its consequences are and will continue to have profound effects on human health and the wellbeing of future generations.
In confronting the fact that 29% of Irish households are in energy poverty, we must ensure that in moving to a net-zero Ireland we adhere to the principles of a Just Transition, and must reach those furthest behind first.
Energy crises disproportionately impact the most marginalised, including one parent families, carers, disabled people, and older people, and are driven by an energy system that is too reliant on expensive imported fossil fuels.
The Government has been backtracking on climate action in recent months; Government Ministers have suggested in the media that they won't meet our legally binding climate targets, and several pieces of legislation undermining the Climate Act have been published, including one that proposes to build an LNG terminal in Ireland, which will lock us into importing unreliable and dirty fossil fuels.