Ireland's Climate Change Assessment: Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation

Abstract

Transformative change can deliver rapid, deep and sustained emissions reduction (mitigation, see Volume 2), build resilience to impacts (adaptation, see Volume 3) and deliver a range of benefits and opportunities. Such an approach can realise benefits for the wellbeing of people and nature and achieve greater equity across society. Pursuing transformative change allows the realisation of opportunities that would be missed if such a holistic and systemic approach is not followed. Much greater efforts are needed to close the gap between ambition and action on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Realisation of transformative change can entail mobilising society to fundamentally reorganise the systems driving greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.