Ireland's clean energy transition mired in policy gridlock, report claims

The reduction in emissons is not happening fast enough, says Ibec. Photograph: iStock Ireland's clean energy transition is mired in "policy gridlock and incoherence", lobby group Ibec has claimed. In a new report, the employers' group is highly critical of what it describes as the lack of a "clear and compelling vision" for what a net-zero economy "means and looks like in practice". The reduction in emissions is not happening fast enough because the State is struggling "to decouple economic growth from emissions growth", particularly in the transport and enterprise sectors, it said. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projects that…