{"id":469096,"date":"2026-05-27T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469096\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:34:08","slug":"ireland-falling-behind-on-climate-targets-says-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469096\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland falling behind on climate targets, says EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ireland is falling badly behind on its climate targets \u2013 and the gap is widening.<\/p>\n<p>New projections from the Environmental Protection Agency show Ireland could achieve a greenhouse gas reduction of just 25% by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just under half of the national target of 51%.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA\u2019s Director of the Office of Evidence and Assessment, Roni Hawe says urgent action is needed to meet our targets\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NEWSTALK202605270008.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NEWSTALK202605270008.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is falling badly behind on its climate targets \u2013 and the gap is widening. New projections from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-469096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469096","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=469096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}