What's in the Government's Climate Action Plan 2023?

The Government launched Climate Action Plan 2023 on December 21, 2022. This plan sets out the accelerated action needed to be undertaken in Ireland to response to the climate crisis. It also ensures that climate solutions underpin the nation's social and economic developments

The Plan includes the following targets for 2030:

• enough renewable electricity to power every home and business in the country by 2030
• 70% of people in rural Ireland to have buses that go three times a day to the nearest town
• 500,000 homes retrofitted to BER B2 to make them warmer
• 1 in 3 private cars on our roads to be electric by 2030
• walking, cycling and public transport to account for 50% of all daily trips
• tillage farming to cover up to 400,000 hectares by 2030

Renewable energy is key to CAP23, which means that targets for wind energy have been set as 6 GW of onshore wind energy by the end of 2025, growing to 9 GW of onshore wind energy by 2030, and at least 7 GW of offshore wind energy by the end of 2030 with 2 GW of that to be used for green hydrogen production.

Read the Climate Action Plan summary here: https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/c2114-government-launches-updated-climate-action-plan-accelerating-ambition-in-reaching-climate-goals/#:~:text=Climate%20Action%20Plan%202023%20builds,Action%20and%20Low%20Carbon%20Development