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

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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...