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Minister James Browne (FF)

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The war in Ukraine has brought home the risks of dependence on volatile fossil fuels, with families and business facing skyrocketing energy costs. The floods in Pakistan, the drought in the Horn of Africa and the European heatwaves have given us a glimpse of what the future looks like if we don’t contain climate breakdown.

As my local TD, I’m writing to ask you to urge the Government to take bold action to cut pollution, reduce energy poverty and get off fossil fuels.

In the coming weeks the Government will be making decisions on 3 key policies, a new Climate Action Plan, a new Energy Poverty Action Plan and the Energy Security Review. They will also be going to the UN climate talks in Egypt (COP27) where they will have the opportunity to show solidarity with those in the global south who have done least to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of climate chaos already.

The scientists who produced the latest IPCC report for UN members could not have been clearer. We need “deep and immediate” cuts in polluting emissions. The UN Secretary General could not have been clearer: “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness”.

I’m asking you to advocate for the following in the Dáil, inside your own political grouping and directly to the Minister for climate and energy.

- Friends of the Earth’s 12-Step Programme for bold action to eliminate emissions and cut costs. See a copy of this here: https://bit.ly/FoE12steps

- The joint recommendations from 42 organisations on how to tackle energy poverty and energy pollution at the same time. See a copy of this here: https://bit.ly/jointletterEP

- A decision on the Government’s ongoing Energy Security Review which prevents long-term use of fossil fuels, including the rejection of commercial onshore and offshore LNG and the prioritisation of demand reduction in line with the expert technical analysis published as part of the Government’s consultation in September.

Internationally, Ireland must also stand up for faster and fairer climate action.  At COP26 in Glasgow Ireland became a founding member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance led by Denmark and Costa Rica. This year, as we approach COP27 in Egypt Ireland should:

- Endorse the civil-society proposal for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to manage a fair and rapid phase out of fossil fuels, support workers and communities and transition rapidly to renewable energy.

- Follow the lead of Denmark, who recently pledged new and additional finance to pay for “loss and damage” in the global south, and work at COP27 for the formal establishment and collective financing of a UN Loss and Damage Finance Facility

Nationally, the key thing is that only bold action will do now. It’s long past-time for half measures and baby steps. I welcome that a binding 5-year limit on national emissions, the Carbon Budget, was adopted by the Dáil on a cross-party basis earlier this year. And it’s good we finally have sectoral emissions ceilings, even if they don’t yet match the national ceiling. But now we have to deliver the measures that will ensure we live within that carbon budget to 2025.

There’s only 3 years left and emissions are still rising so the Government needs to go big, now. In the short-term some of the measures needed, from cycle lanes to solar farms, will inconvenience or unsettle some of us. But that’s inevitable at this point, the only choice left is between disruption now or destruction later. And those in Pakistan and Africa are facing destruction already.

It’s an emergency, indeed the Dáil declared it’s an emergency 3 years ago, and we need the Government to start acting like it.

I’m counting on you as my local TD to make sure they know that in the weeks ahead.

Yours sincerely,
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