The latest COP summit has been fraught with conflict.
The current laws prohibiting nuclear-powered electricity generation plants in Ireland should be revisited, according to an Ireland South MEP.
More than half of EU countries now use nuclear energy but its production was banned in Ireland in 1999 by the Electricity Regulation Act.
On the final day of COP 28 in Dubai today, a proposal to phase out fossil fuels is also likely to be rejected - which Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher believes goes hand in hand with nuclear electricity:
Dr Cara Augustenborg is assistant professor in environmental policy at UCD and a member of Ireland’s Climate Change Advisory Council - she says there must be a concrete deal to stop fossil fuels:
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