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LIMERICK Green Party TD Brian Leddin is the chairman of Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action. He has spoken at two prestigious international conferences in Paris over recent weeks.
The first was the Conference on the Strategic Economic Autonomy of the European Union. It was hosted at the Palace du Luxembourg by the French Senate.
Deputy Leddin said: “We are seeing how the war in Ukraine has severely impacted energy and food supplies in Ireland and across the European Union. Both the conflict and the climate crisis have exposed fundamental weaknesses in these areas, which must be fixed.
“At the conferences, I was able to report that Ireland can provide clean renewable energy to Europe using interconnection and development of a hydrogen economy, so that we are not dependent on despots and dictators. Limerick and the Mid West will be the centre of this effort.”
Deputy Leddin also spoke to the Global Parliamentary Network, which launched Monday’s third and final section in the comprehensive review on climate science. It drew on the work of thousands scientists.
“This critical report makes for very grim reading, but it lists out what’s needed to avert climate disaster. According to the report, the world has only 30 days to stop global greenhouse gas emission from rising. The IPCC report says that the climate cannot handle more fossil fuel projects than it can handle.
“The message that I wanted to deliver to OECD members is that systemic changes rather than marginal changes in our society are required,” he said.
