Climate Action Plan 2024 must create actions which acknowledge and address the domestic impacts of the climate crisis for marginalised groups in Ireland such as women and girls, Travellers, people seeking refuge and or asylum, disabled people, older people and more. Adaptation and mitigation policy responses from Government must also be assessed for their impacts on the aforementioned groups. Gathering of gender disaggregated data surrounding climate issues is essential to make evidence-based policy responses in this area, as well as recognition of the role of care and care work in gendered experiences of the climate crisis. Work on centring well-being rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and growth within the Irish economy and policy should be scaled up to benefit people and the planet.
Read the submission to the Climate Action Plan 2024 here
