{"id":137995,"date":"2025-03-04T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/laggard-ireland-may-face-26-billion-euro-eu-climate-bill-watchdogs-warn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:15:08","slug":"laggard-ireland-may-face-26-billion-euro-eu-climate-bill-watchdogs-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/laggard-ireland-may-face-26-billion-euro-eu-climate-bill-watchdogs-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Laggard Ireland may face 26 billion euro EU climate bill, watchdogs warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137995\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Ireland may have to pay EU compliance costs of between 8 billion euros and 26 billion euros ($8.4 billion-$27.2 billion) if it does not swiftly implement its emissions-cutting plans by 2030, the country&#8217;s fiscal and climate watchdogs warned on Tuesday. The estimate, equivalent to between 3% and 9% of Irish national income, far exceeds the most recent 2023 government estimate of 3.5 billion euros to 8.1 billion for falling short of the 2030 EU climate change targets.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish fiscal and climate change advisory councils said the government could reduce the potential costs to between 3 billion and 12 billion euros if it follows through on plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have yet to be enacted. &#8221;Allowing these costs to fall on the Irish state instead of meeting its agreed commitments to reduce emissions would be a colossal missed opportunity,&#8221; the two independent bodies said in a joint report.As part of the EU&#8217;s legally binding target of a 55% cut in emissions by 2030, member states that fail to hit their goals are liable to effectively pay those that exceed their targets by purchasing their surplus emissions allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, which currently has the healthiest public finances in Europe, is the furthest from its emissions targets among member states on a per capita basis, according to European Commission data.<br \/>\nWhile they fell 6.8% in 2023 versus 2022, Irish emissions are projected to be between 11% and 29% below 2018 levels by 2030 depending on how much of the government&#8217;s plans are implemented, the Environmental Protection Agency says.<\/p>\n<p>The two watchdogs said the wide range of their estimated costs relates to the differing potential paths for Ireland&#8217;s emissions and the &#8221;highly uncertain&#8221; price of missing targets.They said measures including upgrading Ireland&#8217;s energy grid, speeding up the roll out of electric vehicles and supporting changes in farming practices could help avoid some of the currently inevitable costs.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/climate-energy\/laggard-ireland-may-face-26-billion-euro-eu-climate-bill-watchdogs-warn-2025-03-04\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/2-uutinen\/\">Laggard Ireland may face 26 billion euro EU climate bill, watchdogs warn<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1338,612,274,3345,606,607,608,9171],"class_list":["post-137995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bill","tag-climate","tag-eu","tag-ireland","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-watchdog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}