NESC at the Inaugural Decarbonising Dublin Summit

• 21 November 2024
• Topics: Energy and renewables Environment
• Types: News

 

On 14th November 2024, Dr Jeanne Moore participated in Codema’s Decarbonising Dublin Summit. Codema is Dublin’s Energy Agency, and this event focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the capital in meeting its climate and energy targets towards 2030 and 2050. Jeanne moderated the morning session, ‘A Strategic Vision for Dublin’, with panellists sharing an image to represent their strategic future vision for the city.

 

Taking part in the panel discussion were: Dr Lorraine D’Arcy, TU Dublin; Jim Scheer, SEAI; Liam Ryan, Eirgrid; Marion Jammet, IGBC; Helen Shaw, Athena Media; and Katlyne Armstrong, Bohemian FC. Each brought a different perspective and vision for Dublin’s people and places. In her reflections, Jeanne noted that:

“These strategic visions complement and align to show us the potential for a decarbonised city that enables people and places to live healthily and well in inclusive ways that seem to nurture communities and nature. In different ways they touch on significant changes in our systems (how we get around, how we use heat and power in the city as well as nationally) and on governance – a focus on just and inclusive processes (such as more co-creation and enabled community action and shared spaces) but also made possible by the technical and digital shifts already underway”.

 

To close the session,  Jeanne led the delegates through Codema’s visioning exercise to picture themselves in a decarbonised Dublin in 2050.