ABICAP

Background:

The Government of Ireland is currently at the early stages of implementation of the National Climate Action Plan. The EPA-funded ABICAP project aims to support the implementation of the measures outlined in the Climate Action Plan by identifying whether administrative burdens create unnecessary frictions in the system and are thus reasons for the gap between climate aspirations and climate actions.

While administrative requirements are often essential for program integrity, avoidance of environmental harm, accountability, and transparency, ABICAP focuses on instances where administrative burdens are unnecessarily high, where they are unjustly distributed, and on the reduction of unnecessary administrative burdens.

Primary Research Questions:

1. What are the unnecessary administrative burdens that impede the implementation of the policies described in Ireland’s 2021 Climate Action Plan?

2. Who suffers more than others from these administrative burdens?

3. How can these administrative burdens be reduced?

Get in touch:

Please get in touch with Dr Leonhard Lades (leonhard.lades@ucd.ie) if you have any questions or suggestions.

This project is funded under the EPA Research Programme 2021-2030. The EPA Research Programme is a Government of Ireland initiative funded by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

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