Ireland has declared a climate emergency.
In this interview Barry McMullin looks at what can be learned from other emergencies in Ireland’s history. He does the maths on carbon budgets, discusses the growth of Irish dairy, green growth, the distortions of per capita emissions and Ireland’s three big bets.

Barry McMullin was co-Principal Investigator on a EPA-commissioned 5-year assessment on the potential of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in Ireland.
He is an electronic engineer and long-time professor at DCU.
He has given evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action on numerous occasions. He’s on the board of SEAI and head of the Engineers Ireland division on Energy, Environment and Climate Action.
If you’d like to find out more about how you can call on government to accelerate decarbonisation go to https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/ or www.antaisce.org

Topics discussed in the episode:

Caroline O’Doherty Irish Examiner article cited in podcast

An Taisce assessment of Ireland’s 2023 Climate Action Plan

Journalist George Monbiot ‘Leave It In The Ground’
‘How climate change paved the way to war in Syria’ (DW)
Green growth
Links to Barry McMullin’s work

- Prof Barry McMullin and Dr Louise Fitzgerald discuss the Climate Action Plan 2023

- Overview of the climate situation and Negative Emissions Technologies
- McMullin gives evidence to the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
- 2016 project launched by Barry McMullin and others: A Citizen’s Convention for a Post-Carbon Ireland

- Links to Barry McMullin’s academic articles

- Find the latest climate updates on Barry McMullin’s twitter

- Barry McMullin’s website

This episode was recorded on 10th March 2023

Tech support: Darren Loughran