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Ireland’s Climate Change Strategy
April 7, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am MDT
MINES GLOBAL ENERGY FUTURE INITIATIVE PRESENTS
IRELAND’S CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY
Topic: Ireland’s Climate Change Strategy
SPEAKER: Eamon Ryan T.D, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport, Ireland
Hosted by: MINES GLOBAL ENERGY FUTURE INITIATIVE AND THE PAYNE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 – 9:00AM – 10:00AM MT
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Please join the Mines Global Energy Future Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Eamon Ryan T.D, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport, Ireland, presenting a webinar titled Ireland’s Climate Change Strategy on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT).
Eamon Ryan TD is the Minister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport. He was appointed to this role in June 2020.
Eamon Ryan was elected to represent Dublin Bay South in the 2020 general election.
He was born in Dublin and raised in Dundrum and Dartry.
He studied commerce in UCD before taking a job managing a marketing course in the university’s School of Business. He went on to found a cycling tourism company, Irish Cycling Safaris, in the late 1980s and in 1996 won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
He was the founding chairperson of the Dublin Cycling Campaign and began his political career as a Dublin City Councillor for the Rathgar-Rathmines ward. He then went on to serve both as a TD for Dublin South and as a Government Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
In recent years he has worked for a European climate organisation and chaired the digital policy group in the Institute of International and European Affairs.
He is currently leader of the Green Party/Comhaontas Glas.