Enforcement Targets Met But International Targets Now Looming - Feb 26 2007, 9:00 AM The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published its Annual Highlights, 2006, a report summarising the agency’s key activities during the year. Launching the report, Dr. Mary Kelly, Director General of the EPA, pointed out that the EPA has delivered on all major objectives set out in the Strategic Framework of 2003.
increase in Ireland’s Greenhouse Gases - Transport and Energy up - Agriculture down - Feb 16 2007, 4:56 PM Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas emissions rose by 1.9 per cent in 2005, as compared to 2004. Figures released today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that, while Ireland’s Kyoto target in the period 2008-2012 is to limit emissions to 13 per cent above the base line estimate, Ireland’s emissions in 2005 were 25.4 per cent above the base line estimate.
Urgent action more necessary than ever to prevent irreversible climate change - Feb 01 2007, 5:39 PM The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) welcomes the publication of a report on Global Climate Change by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).