Climate Action Plan Progress Reports
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From: Department of the Taoiseach; Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment
- Published on: 6 August 2020
- Last updated on: 16 April 2025
- Climate Action Plan 2024
- Climate Action Plan 2023
- Climate Action Plan 2021
- Interim Climate Actions 2021
- Climate Action Plan 2019
- Other important publications
Ireland's Climate Action Plans provide a roadmap to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the climate crisis. They provide specific actions that government departments, agencies and public bodies will take across sectors, together with a timeline for the completion of each action.
Progress Reports on the Climate Action Plans are prepared by the Department of the Taoiseach and published each quarter. To date:
• Six Progress Reports were produced under the Climate Action Plan 2019. These reports show that, overall, 78% of the 500 measures in the Climate Action Plan 2019 due by end-2020 were completed.
• Three progress reports were produced under the Interim Climate Actions 2021. These reports show that, between Q1 and Q3 2021, 66% of the 340 measures due under the Interim Climate Actions were delivered.
• Four progress reports were produced under the Climate Action Plan 2021Climate Action Plan 2021 . Between Q4 2021 and Q4 2022, 79% of the 965 measures due for delivery were completed.
• Four progress reports were produced under Climate Action Plan 2023 (CAP23). These reports show that, between Q1 and Q4 2023, 65% of the 290 actions due for delivery in 2023 were completed. A legacy exercise on actions that were not completed during 2023 was also published alongside the Q4 2023 Progress Report. Delayed actions of higher impact will be retained for progress reporting in Q1 2024, and beyond, until they are completed, alongside any new Climate Action Plan 2024 (CAP24) actions.
• With the publication of CAP24 on 21 May, progress reporting for Q1 and Q2 2024 was combined to reflect the most recent version of the CAP. To date, 20 of the 33 new actions (c.61%) due for delivery so far in 2024 have been completed.
Attention is drawn to ‘high impact’ measures across all Progress Reports, highlighting those actions with more significant emissions reduction and/or adaptation potential.
The latest Progress Report details progress on the 33 new climate actions due for delivery in Q1 and Q2 2024. The progress made on high impact actions delayed from CAP23 is also included in the report, with 21 of 47 reportable legacy actions completing in the first half of 2024.
