Economic policymaking needs to adapt to the climate emergency

SEAI’s mixed climate fortunes

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has developed into quite the public spending goliath. The organisation’s public funding for 2025 has been budgeted at €674m, not far off the combined allocation of €766m to the country’s two main enterprise agencies, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. Taxpayer transfers to SEAI dwarf exchequer expenditure on other non-commercial state bodies such as Fáilte Ireland (€148m), Sport Ireland (€127m)…

Economic policymaking needs to adapt to the climate emergency

Companies raise prices during ‘cost shocks’, researchers say, and policymakers are not equipped to tackle such inflation The heatwave that gripped much of the UK this week was the latest sweltering reminder that the climate emergency is already making daily life more volatile. Many of the places…