Climate Change Negotiations
Dail Éireann — 2023-12-12
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

The science is absolutely clear. Coal, gas and oil must be left in the underground. Yet, at COP, it is clear that the interests of profit and of oil-producing countries are coming first, while the needs of humanity are being forgotten. The COP process is failing. That is why I asked the Taoiseach earlier about whether Ireland would support a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. He seemed to ask why Ireland had not been presented with a treaty or been involved in negotiating that treaty, but this is precisely at an early point. There is no text of a treaty that Ireland is being asked to sign. Ireland is being asked to commit to the basic three pillars of a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, which are non-proliferation, a fair phase-out and just transition and to work with other countries. A series of small island nations, Latin American countries, the European Parliament and the World Health Organization have signed up to work on such a treaty modelled on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Will the Government also sign up?

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Sitting date: 2023-12-12