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May 2025
25m 28s

Ep 30 - Climate Action Plan

RtÉ Radio 1
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Ireland has a Climate Action Plan that the government maintains will succeed in reducing our Greenhouse Gases in line with what we are legally obliged to do. Nobody else agrees. This programme measures the gap between what we have to do and what we are actually getting done. 
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