Irish National Climate Change Strategy

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Irish National Climate Change Strategy
Start date:	2007
Scope:	National
Policy area:	Climate change and energy
Legal status:	Legally binding
Main formal decision making body:	The Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Main implementing body:	Local and Regional Authorities
Language:	English
URL:	Irish National Climate Change Strategy website
Format:	pdf
Access:	Free
Publisher:	Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Country(ies):	Ireland
Date:	17/02/2012

The Irish National Climate Change Strategy (2007 - 2012) sets out a range of measures, building on those already in place under the first National Climate Change Strategy (2000) to ensure Ireland reaches its target under the Kyoto Protocol. The Strategy provides a framework for action to reduce Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by 13% above the 1990 levels in the 2008-2012 period. The Strategy outlines measures for different sectors: Energy Supply, Transport, Residential, Industry, Commercial and Services, Waste, Public Sector, Cross-Sectoral Action, Agriculture, Land-use and Forestry. The agriculture and forestry sectors have a key role to play in addressing climate change, through emission reductions and sequestration and also through the development of renewable energy resources.

Objective	* To increase forest area from 10% to 17% of Ireland`s land area To develop the wood fuel economy and to promote agro-forestry To support afforestation
Target	Forest wood energy; sequestration potential of land-use and forestry
Monitoring, assessing and reporting	National Inventory Report by the Environmental Protection Agency
Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions	REPS, Kyoto Protocol, EPA
Keywords	Climate change, greenhouse gases, national strategy, afforestation, wood energy

FOREST EUROPE criteria	FOREST EUROPE indicators	ToSIA indicators
Policies, institutions and instruments by policy area, Socio-economic functions, Forest resources and carbon	Forest area, Carbon stock, Wood consumption, Energy from wood resources, Trade in wood	Trade balance, Resource use, including recycled materials, Investment and research & development, Innovation, Energy generation and use, Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stock, Water and air pollution