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Climate Action Plan Progress Reports


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.
  • Two progress reports were produced under CAP24. Actions completed between Q1 and Q4 2024 resulted in an overall implementation rate of 64% for CAP24 (80 of 125 actions completed over the year). 29 of the 47 remaining CAP23 Actions were also completed over this timeframe.
  • The CAP25 Q1 progress report details progress made on 4 of 6 new Actions due for completion. Of the 64 delayed CAP23 and CAP24 legacy actions remaining, 10 were completed in Q1 2025. Attention is drawn to ‘high impact’ measures across all Progress Reports, highlighting those actions with more significant emissions reduction and/or adaptation potential.

Climate Action Plan 2025

Climate Action Plan 2025: Q1 Progress Report
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Climate Action Plan 2025: Q1 Annex
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Climate Action Plan 2024

Climate Action Plan 2024: Q3 and Q4 Progress Report
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Climate Action Plan 2024: Q3 and Q4 Annex of Actions
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Climate Action Plan 2024: Q1 and Q2 Progress Report
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Climate Action Plan 2024: Q1, Q2 and Legacy 2023 Actions
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Climate Action Plan 2023

Legacy actions from Climate Action Plan 2023
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Climate Action Plan 2023 - Fourth Progress Report (Q4 2023)
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Climate Action Plan 2023 - Q4 Actions
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Climate Action Plan 2023 - Third Progress Report (Q3 2023)
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Climate Action Plan 2023 - Q3 Actions
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Climate Action Plan 2023 - Second Progress Report (Q2 2023)
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Climate Action Plan 2023: Q2 Actions
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Climate Action Plan 2023: First progress report (Q1 2023)
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Climate Action Plan 2023: Q1 actions
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Climate Action Plan 2021

Legacy actions from Climate Action Plan 2021
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Fourth Progress Report (Q4 2022)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Fourth Progress Report (Appendix - Actions)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Third Progress Report (Q3 2022)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Third Progress Report (Appendix - Actions)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Second Progress Report (Q2 2022)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - Second Progress Report (Appendix - Actions)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - First Progress Report (Q4 2021/Q1 2022)
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Climate Action Plan 2021 - First Progress Report (Appendix - Actions)
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Interim Climate Actions 2021

Interim Climate Actions 2021 - Third Progress Report (Q3 2021)
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Interim Climate Actions 2021 - Second Progress Report (Q2 2021)
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Interim Climate Actions 2021 - First Progress Report (Q1 2021)
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Climate Action Plan 2019

Climate Action Plan 2019 - Sixth Progress Report (Q4 2020)
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - Achievements at end of Q4 2020
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - Fifth Progress Report (Q3 2020).
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - Fourth Progress Report (Q2 2020)
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - Third Progress Report (Q1 2020)
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - Second Progress Report (Q4 2019)
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Climate Action Plan 2019 - First Progress Report (Q2/Q3 2019)
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Other important publications

Revised Memorandum of Understanding between the Irish Climate Change Advisory Council and all relevant Government Departments and Agencies
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