Authors: Sabrina Dekker and Diarmuid Torney
Summary: To date, Ireland’s climate change policy response has not delivered sufficient progress. The central objectives of this project were to construct a policy evaluation framework that builds on a standard EU evaluation framework and to undertake evaluations of climate change policies across all sectors using the framework, with a specific focus on key policies.
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It is clear that, to date, Ireland’s climate change policy response has not delivered sufficient progress. Despite a clear need for regular monitoring and review of national climate change policies, evaluation systems for climate policy based on both forecasts and actual results are underdeveloped. This has contributed to Ireland’s inability to meet climate change goals.
The central objectives of the Irish Climate Policy Evaluation project were to construct a policy evaluation framework that builds on a standard EU evaluation framework and to undertake evaluations of climate change policies across all sectors using the framework, with a specific focus on key policies.
Building on and extending existing frameworks, the project developed a results-based evaluation methodology that could be applied to other policy areas. The project also developed policy recommendations arising from evaluations of existing policies. These recommendations ought to be taken into account in developing future policies. Climate policymaking in Ireland would benefit from more systematic results-based analysis of policies in the future.
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