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REPORTS AND SUBMISSIONS
Feasta has made the following reports and submissions to governmental bodies in Britain and Ireland.
Submission on Sustainable Development to the Oireachtas Sub-Committee on Sustainable Development. October 1999
Methodology for the Implementation of Ireland's Climate Change Strategy
Submission on behalf of FEASTA. 8th March, 2001
Submission on Globalisation to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs in the House of Lords (includes appendices). 17th October, 2001
New Financial Architecture for Sustainability
Proposals by Earth Summit Ireland, an umbrella group of Irish NGOs which includes Feasta, for acheiving a more sustainable and just world economic system. April 23rd, 2002
Climate and Currency: Proposals for Global Monetary Reform. 1st May, 2002
Submission to Ireland's Department of the Environment and Local Government
This report comments on Ireland's progress towards becoming sustainable since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). September 2002
Note for the Sustainable Development Commission re Redefining Prosperity
by John Jopling, for Feasta. 27 October 2003
Submission on Rural Housing To the Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Local Government. 6th November 2003
Fossil Fuels Subsidies and Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Fossil Fuels
A report to Comhar, the National Sustainable Development Partnership, by Feasta and Friends of the Irish Environment. 12th December 2003
Contribution to consultation process on Irish Renewable Energy policy goals. March 2004
Submission to Mayo County Council on the development of a gasfield off the Mayo coast. January 29, 2004
Submission to the Irish Department of the Environment
"Reforming the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the light of experience during the pilot phase." Feasta suggests that Ireland should adopt an energy rationing system to help the country meet its Kyoto emissions target. November 2005.
Eliminating the Need for Economic Growth: A submission to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. December 2005
In October 2005, the British Government announced that Sir Nicholas Stern, the head of its Economic Service, had also been appointed its Adviser on the economics of "climate change and development". Sir Nicholas immediately asked for submissions on, amongst other things, "The implications for energy demand and emissions of the prospects for economic growth over the coming decades." These submissions had to be in by December 9th. Feasta's submission sets out many of Feasta's ideas about why rich-country growth needs to be stopped and how this can be done.
Submission to the UK All-Party Committee on Climate Change April 2006
"A cross-party consensus on climate change is possible provided the parties agree to work from the same point of departure. A consensus is also highly desirable because of the radical steps that will have to be taken to respond adequately to the seriousness of the problem. "
Response to the Green Paper: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland January 3 2007
The Irish Government's Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources published its Energy Green Paper, a discussion document on the country's future energy supplies, on October 1st, and invited anyone interested to comment by December 1st. The Green Paper can be downloaded here in pdf format. The 98 comments the Department received have been posted on its website, here. Amazingly, the Green Paper ignored the near-certainty that global oil production will peak within the next 25 years. The only submissions which criticised the Department for this came from Feasta and from people associated with it or influenced by it. Individual Feasta members who made submissions were Cleland McVeigh, Michael Layden and Roger Adair who submitted as the Northwest Group, and Phoebe Bright who submitted as Vivid Logic. Oisin Coughlan, a member of the Feasta Climate Group, made a submission on behalf of Friends of the Earth, and Eamon Ryan, TD, submitted one for the Green Party. The Consumers' Association of Ireland submission calls for energy rationing, a result of our links with that organisation. (Please note that all these submissions are in PDF format). Below are links to Feasta's own submission:
Submission of Evidence to the ERFA Committee's examination of international climate policy post-2012 January 5 2007
This submission was made to the UK Parliament's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee which is considering international climate policy post-2012. "There is an urgent need for climate action but the UNFCCC process is moving at a snail's pace. It has become a Gordian Knot of complexity. A simpler process could cut through the knot and lead to a climate treaty being achieved in a relatively short period."
Submission to the Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government on their guidelines for Carbon Cycles and Sinks April 24 2008
Feasta made this submission in collaboration with CELT (Centre for Environmental Living and Training). It explains the reasoning behind using carbon sinks as a way to mitigate climate change and suggests ways to incorporate the use of sinks into existing agricultural practice in Ireland.
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Submission to the Irish Commission on Taxation May 21 2008
This submission covers a range of topics related to taxation. It includes an outline of the reasoning behind Feasta's advocacy of a shift from taxes on work to taxes on rent (such as a land value tax) and the need for a quota system to control carbon emissions.
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Submission to the Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government on their guidelines for Sustainable Residential Developments in Urban Areas May 24 2008
In general, we welcome these Guidelines and Urban Design Manual as they comprise a good outline of current best practice, an improvement on the current situation. But we fear that the Guidelines are too late; they address an economic reality that is rapidly changing; they largely ignore pressures in rural areas and they are not ambitious enough to properly address the energy, climate and social challenges currently facing Ireland.
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