Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
This goal focuses on enabling Cork City to become a resilient, climate-neutral city with a vibrant, successful society that is enabled to respond to the challenges of climate change.
This chapter has five parts as follows:
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Introduction
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Objectives of this goal
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Policy Alignment
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How we will put this goal in place – the actions
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Case Study: Clogheenmilcon Fen
12.1 Introduction Cork City is a rapidly growing and economically important second city.
The city produces nearly one million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (or CO2eq) emissions every year. CO2eq is a term that refers to gases other than carbon dioxide that have been converted into the equivalent of carbon dioxide based on their global warming potential (GWP).
Our city’s emissions come mainly from, in order of size, our:
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Residential activities
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Road transport
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Commercial and industrial buildings
The city is increasingly vulnerable to flooding, heatwaves, and droughts. These are projected to become more frequent and intense if something is not done to deal with them. Cork City Council and other organisations in the city have begun to put policies and plans in place that are starting to deliver climate-positive change, but there is a long way to go. Within the city, there is a strong desire to act on climate change. Cork City’s residents know about climate change, and they want action. There is also a clear willingness to work together across our:
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Community organisations
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Businesses
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Academic institutions
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Public sector institutions
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