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Climate Action: What you can do
From Department of the Taoiseach
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From Department of the Taoiseach
Published on
Last updated on
The State provides supports in a range of areas to help you play your part in tackling climate change.
Details and links are provided below to help you learn more about these supports and how to access them.
Sign up to the SEAI 21-day energy challenge to see how you can reduce your home heating and energy costs, without decreasing your home comfort.
There are a number of grants available to help you upgrade your home, making it warmer and more energy efficient. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is responsible for these grants. Apply now and benefit from lower energy bills.
- Insulation Grants: Up to €6,000 available
- Heat Pump System Grants: Up to €3,500 available
- Heating Controls Grants: Up to €700 available
There are a number of grants and supports available for the installation of solar panels and renewable energy alternatives through the SEAI.
- Solar Water Heating Grants: Up to €1,200 available
- Solar Electricity Grants: Up to €3,000 available (€2,400 towards Solar PV + €600 towards a storage battery)
- Community Energy Grants: grants towards renewable energy installations for small business owners.
Reducing our transport emissions will have a big impact on our climate. Making fewer car journeys and walking, cycling and using public transport more, will really help.
This section provides details of State supports to help you reduce your transport emissions.
Private car use is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector and is responsible for more than half of Ireland's Transport emissions.
One of the most impactful changes car users can make to reduce emissions, is to change from a petrol or diesel vehicle to electric.
There are a number of supports in place to you with your EV purchase including:
Incentives are available to support the use of public transport instead of private cars:
Incentives are also available to encourage the use of lower emission transport modes, such as cycling.
The State provides a number of supports to help you recycle and dispose of your waste correctly:
The State offers a number of supports to landowners to plant new forest or support existing forests. Teagasc provides the following grants:
The SEAI has produced an SME Guide to Energy Efficiency . It gives advice and ideas to help any business become more energy efficient. It has lots of simple, straightforward actions you can take that won’t cost you anything. It also has information on bigger actions as well as grants, schemes and tax incentives that you may be eligible to avail of.
The following supports are available through the SEAI:
Please click here to return to the main climate action page.