Climate Action Plan 2025
Ireland's national climate strategy, setting emissions-reduction targets and sectoral measures.
On 17 September, An Coimisiún Pleanála cited Climate Action Plan 2025 when refusing a €1.5bn data-centre proposal at Killala, after the developer failed to show it would meet the plan's objectives.
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Climate Action Plan 2025 is Ireland's national climate strategy. It sets emissions-reduction targets and sectoral measures across the economy, giving government policy a common framework for climate action.
The plan matters to decisions whose energy demand and infrastructure needs may affect those targets. On 17 September, An Coimisiún Pleanála cited the plan's objectives in refusing a proposed data centre at Killala, County Mayo.
Its lasting significance lies in linking national emissions goals with sector-by-sector policy measures. The Killala decision shows that the plan's objectives can form part of the evidence considered when a major project's power demand is assessed.
The plan shaped a refusal
On 17 September, An Coimisiún Pleanála cited Climate Action Plan 2025 when it refused the proposed Killala data centre in County Mayo. The developer had not demonstrated that the €1.5bn project would meet the plan's objectives.
The same 17 September ruling also noted that the developer lacked a fixed grid-connection agreement and a corporate renewable-Power Purchase Agreement. For Climate Action Plan 2025, the decision put its objectives directly into the planning assessment of a high-demand development.