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  • Ireland spends over ¤7 billion per year on energy, most of which is imported. We depend on imported oil for almost all of our transport energy needs and most analysts are predicting increased price volatility.


  • In Ireland, 'business as usual' projections show Ireland's energy-related emissions rising by over 60% in the period from 1990 to 2010.


  • The Kyoto Protocol, keystone of the United Nations climate change programme, sets targets for nations to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. As part of that target, Ireland is to limit its net greenhouse gas emissions to 13% above 1990 levels in the period 2008-2012. As a signatory, Ireland is determined to meet these new and challenging international obligations. As a result the Department of Public Enterprise (now the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources) set three principal energy policy objectives in its Statement of Strategy 2001-2004:

    1. To ensure security of supply (energy)

    2. To ensure environmentally sustainable energy production and consumption.

    3. To develop a competitive supply industry.


    Four main strategies are being pursued to achieve those objectives:

    1. Diversification of energy supplies

    2. Increasing energy efficiency

    3. Increasing capacity from renewables.

    4. Liberalisation of energy markets.

  • The residential sector is responsible for 30% of CO2 emissions (1998) and 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
 
Given that by the year 2000 Ireland had already exceeded its allowable target of greenhouse gas emissions, the challenge ahead is significant. The climate change clock is ticking. To beat the clock we must waste no time in "mainstreaming" sustainable energy practices into all aspects of our lives.
       
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