Climate law omerta?
Ministers, advisors, activists and civil servants work hard to update Ireland’s climate laws for action. Yet the vast majority of citizens, directors, company secretaries and organisations, public and private remain …
Dublin Airport & CO2 – a NERDs view
Passenger limits can’t work due to population growth and the general principle that transport hubs work best at scale, the more flights through Dublin the less CO2 we will emit with direct routings. My view is that we should implement carbon budgets for flying, and make the carbon cost and tax on flying visible to consumers. Its not enough to ‘offset’ your emissions when buying the ticket, show us the actual kg CO2 inclusive of radiative forcing (freely available via ICAO[2] and others for CORSIA[3]). That is we need to put limits in terms of CO2 budgets not passenger numbers.
#SUVskam and #TaxByWgt
We cannot ban SUVs – they are needed for real work. We can tax overweight and overly tall vehicles being used where they shouldn’t be – in Budget2025. This is an opinion piece to have overweight SUV’s and pickup ‘trucks’ taxed appropriately i.e. disincentivised just as we did with “gas guzzlers” in the past.
Wilted Greens?
Tide turns against political party working to reduce your energy costs Working at a local authority last week, I was asked if my Al Gore [ii] Climate Reality 🟢 badge …
Range anxiety? Me arse!
Life cycle or Range anxiety? Myth. In Mr Bean terms; we only have to mine lithium once, we have to mine and refine fossil fuels continuously. Post features 90+km cycle vs 60km range for eBike.
“A ‘Light’ Guide to Energy Savings in Transport”
The EU mandatory threshold to identify energy savings opportunities (aka energy audits) is to reduce to 10Tj (2.8million litres of diesel eq.) with the adoption of the recast EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2024[1] i.e., the next EU corporate reporting round will bring many tens of thousands of organisations into the scope of transport energy audits to EN16247:2022 Parts 1 & 4 (transport).
So I am proud to see “A ‘Light’ Guide to Energy Savings in Transport” hit the bookshops this week from River Publishers (https://www.riverpublishers.com/aeebook/book_details.php?book_id=1032) .
Interlinks Podcast Energy Transformation in the Logistics Transport Sector
Energy Transformation in the Logistics Transport Sector
In this episode of Interlinks we talk to the independent energy management advisor, trainer, and auditor, Conor Molloy.
Avoid, shift & improve your transport choices
With the announcement of CAP21 – Climate Action Plan 2021 and its aim to reduce car km travelled by 25%, this is a blog post based on Climate Reality | Transport in 2 minutes (out of 24Hrs of Realty #LetsGetReal) 30th October 2021 at Rediscovery Centre Ballymun.
2022: Can Ireland go from climate laggard to leader?
We live in a good place, lets protect and improve it in 2022: Can Ireland move from climate laggard[i] to leader? Watching #Don’tLookUp, reading Twitter and the science can be …
What does your car know?
What does your car know? In response to Karlin Lillington’s recent article “Could your old car be giving away all your secrets to its new owner?” I’d thought I’d share what my car knows (spoiler, the answer to Karlin’s question is Yes).