Ireland’s Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) warns that the country must prepare for increasingly severe climate extremes rather than treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as separate emergencies. The council says Ireland needs more systematic resilience planning to match the growing scale and frequency of these hazards.
Both outlets report that CCAC views current resilience efforts as not keeping pace with the risks. RTE describes the need to shift from piecemeal responses to longer-term planning, while Highland Radio emphasizes the same message and notes the existence of planned flood-relief measures that it says are part of the wider picture. The overall focus is on improving preparedness and resilience as climate conditions intensify.
