Evaluating Ireland’s Climate Policy Performance

Both ex ante and ex post policy evaluation systems for climate change policy are underdeveloped across the European Union (EU) in spite of a clear need for regular monitoring and review of national climate change policies. The central objectives of the Irish Climate Policy Evaluation (ICPE) project were to construct a climate change policy evaluation framework that builds upon but also extends the standard EU evaluation framework, and to undertake evaluations of climate change policies across relevant sectors using the framework, with a specific focus on key policies in place at the commencement of the project (mid-2018). The project research was divided into five sectoral work packages: Transport; Built Environment; Agriculture, forestry and land use; Electricity generation, and; Adaptation and resilience.

This report is published as part of the EPA Research Programme 2014–2020.