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Not that I have heard, unless you can tell me otherwise.
I don't believe any of them are going to make these targets.
And a target is only a target.
Jesus, when I was a kid, I targeted to be a professional footballer.
I'm not a professional footballer.
I think we should really consider changing that word climate change.
Because I think the reality right throughout the world, verified by the top scientists, we're in a phase of climate breakdown.
And we begin to have this conversation when we have heat today.
But we also look at the extremities of those flooding events.
All of this is going to become more frequent, more intensive, because we're getting very close to that 1.5 degree.
And when we go over that, then it's nearly a self-fulfilling prophecy that hasn't signed off on it yet in a world context.
But just going back to the previous conversation about where Ireland is in this whole journey.
Many years ago, 25 years ago, I was over in Aarhus in Denmark.
District heating systems, anaerobic digestion, wind farms were just the norm.