Civil servants running Ireland’s battle against climate change clocked up over 1,900 flights in the year before the pandemic grounded air travel. Action 152 of the plan referred to the need to “offset the climate effects of official air travel”. However, in the months leading up to the publication and the months that followed, officials from the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications were undertaking more air travel than they had for years. “However, it’s difficult to project what air travel will be required for the remainder of 2021 and into next year. From January 1, 2020, every Government department had to record the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes.

Source: Irish Examiner August 30, 2021 05:26 UTC