{"id":284317,"date":"2026-02-06T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:26:08","slug":"dozens-of-barriers-preventing-ireland-from-reaching-2030-climate-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284317\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of barriers preventing Ireland from reaching 2030 climate goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Over two dozen barriers are preventing Ireland from reaching its 2030 climate goals, with rapidly rising energy demand from data centres a significant issue, an Oireachtas committee has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It said reliance on private cars, inadequate infrastructure, and issues with electricity grid capacity will also hinder Ireland in reaching its goals.<\/p>\n<p>            CLIMATE &amp; SUSTAINABILITY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/sustainability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over two dozen barriers are preventing Ireland from reaching its 2030 climate goals, with rapidly rising energy demand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2885,9266,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-284317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}