Vol. 492 No. 3
36 Mr. Bell asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if the Government has an agreed programme of action to achieve the Irish target for CO2 emissions; if he will give details of this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13742/98]
Details of actions undertaken by Ireland to meet its objective of limiting the increase in its CO2 emissions to 20 per cent above 1990 levels by the year 2000, as part of the overall stabilisation of emissions at 1990 levels by the European Union as a whole under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, FCCC, are set out in Ireland's first and second national communications under the FCCC, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. The target which may apply in the post 2000 period, within the target for the EU as a whole under the Kyoto Protocol, has not yet been determined.
