COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC REALM AND CLIMATE CHANGE SPC

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

HEADED ITEM NO.

 

Climate Change - SDCC Climate Change Action Plan

REPLY:

Following the introduction of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Act 2015, South Dublin County Council’s first citizen, Mayor Guss O’Connell, joined the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, who share a common vision that drives our actions to tackle intersected climate change challenges.

South Dublin County Council on instruction from its Environment Strategic Policy Committee, aligned with the three other Dublin Local Authorities and Codema are working together to meet our collective and individual obligations under the legislation to tackle Climate Change.

A non-statutory public consultation was held for the document ‘A Draft Strategy Towards Climate Change Action Plans for Dublin Local Authorities’. This process ran from the 20 September until the 17 October 2016, and 32 submissions were received in total.
The Environment SPC proposed the adoption of ‘A Strategy Towards Climate Change Action Plans for Dublin Local Authorities’, which was adopted at the Council Meeting in February 2017. 

SDCC must now produce an Adaptation Plan and a Mitigation Plan. Adaptation to climate change and the successful implementation of adaptation policy, is a task that involves all levels of government from local to European levels. At local level, our task is to focus on the implementation of adaptation responses. Strengthening our capacity to adapt to unavoidable climate change impacts by making our county more resilient to extreme weather events.

Mitigation to climate change tasks local government to make efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases, this can be achieved through improved energy efficiency and greater use of renewable energy sources.

SDCC in conjunction with the three other Dublin Local Authorities and Codema are producing these plans. We are currently meeting all sections of the Local Authority and generating a list of action required to Adapt to and Mitigate the challange of Climate Change.