Towards a green new deal on the island of Ireland
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The document discusses the need for a "Green New Deal" on the island of Ireland to transition away from an unsustainable, fossil fuel-dependent economy to a low-carbon economy. It outlines several reports calling for such a transition due to economic challenges, energy insecurity, and climate change. Cross-sector partnerships in Northern Ireland have had some success in promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency. However, a large-scale "Green New Deal" has yet to be adopted as government strategy on the island, which would require innovative financing mechanisms and managing the impacts on different economic sectors and social groups during the transition.
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Towards a green new deal on the island of Ireland
- 1. Towards a Green New Deal?: Greening the Economy in a carbon-constrained world Dr. John Barry Co-Director, Institute for a Sustainable World and Reader, School of Politics and International Studies and Philosophy Queen ’s University Belfast Email: j.barry@qub.ac.uk
- 7. All dependent on oil
- 10. Political Economy Research Institute (Mass., US) (Oct. 2008), Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy , p. 6
Hinweis der Redaktion
- The inevitable transition to a renewable/low carbon energy economy
- Across the island, the environmental costs of 20th century economic growth are all too obvious, from the excessive use of nitrogen and other fertilisers of industrialised forms of agriculture; the pollution of inland waterways from agricultural, industrial and domestic sources; the loss of biodiversity and habitats; unsustainable increases in carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels; patterns of land use and urban and suburban development which each year decrease green spaces; to the congestion and pollution associated with an explosion of privatised car transport onto a road and transport infrastructure than cannot sustain it and making, for example, Northern Ireland one of the most car-dependent parts of Europe.
- Eamon Ryan (March 12 th 2008 in the Dail) “As our all-Ireland grid study, to which I referred earlier, shows there is a significant requirement for us to urgently build a series of grid connections — we would have to do this in any event to upgrade our grid, even if we were not changing our energy policy direction — it is right for us to treat this on a national basis rather than on a project-specific basis because the lessons we learn in one area will obviously apply elsewhere.”