It’s almost the end of August, kids are back in school and I haven’t had time to post in the past couple of months. I never even got to share my submission to the Citizens assembly as per a previous post in June. The Citizens’ Assembly invited members of the public, representative groups and citizen organisations to make submissions on the third topic they will consider ‘How the State can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change’. So I did.
I had become so disappointed with the system that I decided to engage other opinions through a survey. Thank you to everyone who participated and everyone who advised me. The results are pretty interesting and are condensed in this document:
Here is my personal proposal for what I believe the climate dialogue should look like:
Theresa O’Donohoe
August 2017