Friends of the Earth

Lobbying Organisation Friends of the Earth

Date published 21 Sep, 2017

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Environment

Period 1 May, 2017 to 31 Aug, 2017

Specific Details The National Mitigation Plan

Intended results To strenghten the National Mitigation Plan to actually reduce climate pollution in line with achieving the Government's national transition objective.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Kate Ruddock

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? Yes

What is the directive you gave to the grassroots campaigners? We asked our supporters and interested members of the public to sign a petition asking Minister Naughten for "A climate plan we can be proud of". It's online here: http://bit.ly/climpride

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Email All Oireachtas Members Sent all TDs and Senators a short briefing on 19th July what to look for in the National Mitigation Plan to be published that day, including a summary of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition's "5 tests". The press release version is here: http://bit.ly/FoE190717a

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Meeting (1)

Meeting with Timmy Dooley to ask him to raise the National Mitigation Plan in the Dail with a view to highlighting the inadequacies of the draft plan. 13-06-2017

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Timmy Dooley TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Denis Naughten Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)