Programme for Faster and Fairer Climate Action, 2025-2030

‘Healthier and fairer communities for all’, Friends of the Earth’s Programme for a Government that delivers faster and fairer climate action, 2025 - 2030

‘Healthier and fairer communities for all’, Friends of the Earth’s Programme for a Government that delivers faster and fairer climate action, 2025 - 2030

This detailed briefing sets out Friends of the Earth’s Programme for a Government that delivers faster and fairer climate action, 2025 - 2030.

We believe in a cleaner, healthier, safer, future for everyone, here in Ireland and around the world. The same factors that are driving pollution are also undermining our health and wellbeing and impacting already vulnerable and marginalised communities the most. That means Ireland must do its fair share to eliminate pollution fast enough to prevent complete climate chaos and fairly enough to leave no one behind. We’ve made a start but it’s just that. The next Government and all the parties in the next Dáil must deliver faster and fairer climate action at home and champion it internationally. We need to stop using fossil fuels - coal, peat, oil and gas - and overusing products and processes that depend on them and produce pollution, from plastic and fertilizer to petrol and diesel cars. That means transforming our energy, transport, building and food systems in the next decade, starting immediately. The good news is we already have the solutions to do that in ways that reduce poverty and inequality, at home and abroad.

We have developed a comprehensive set of policy measures which are grouped under 5 areas that the next Government, and all the parties in the next Dáil, must deliver:
1. Government leadership, action and accountability, nationally and internationally
2. Warm homes for all, with lower bills and no fossil fuels
3. Clean, affordable renewable energy for people, not data centres and big tech
4. Affordable, reliable, and accessible fossil-free transport
5. A fair deal for family farmers, to feed Ireland and restore nature