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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: 17 July 2025
- Climate Action Plan 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.
- 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 2024
Climate Action Plan 2023
Climate Action Plan 2021
Interim Climate Actions 2021
Climate Action Plan 2019
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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