Robert Troy
Question:339. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to outline Ireland's target under Conference of the Parties 21. [22203/16]
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On 12 December 2015, an ambitious new legally binding, global agreement on climate change was agreed in Paris. The Paris Agreement puts in place the necessary framework for all countries to take ambitious action, as well as providing for a transparency system to ensure that ensures all countries can have confidence in each other’s efforts. The Agreement sets out a long-term goal to put the world on track to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees. It should be noted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been tasked with evaluating what will be the specific policy implications of this goal with a special report to be published in 2018.
The Agreement aims to tackle 95% of global emissions through 188 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Ireland will contribute to the Paris Agreement via the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) tabled by the EU on behalf of Member States, which commits to 40% reduction in EU-wide emissions by 2030 compared to 1990. The specific details of the contribution to this 40% reduction to be made by each Member State remain to be defined and will be announced as part of the 2030 Climate and Energy package in due course.