One of the Centre for Environmental Justice’s central goals is to ensure environmental policy addresses inequality and is informed by the needs of marginalised communities.

As a result, policy and law reform submissions are a significant part of work. As new laws and policies relating to climate and the environment both nationally and internationally are drafted and released, we often submit our own submissions (occassionally joint submissions), with the aim of shaping it to suit the needs of the communities that we serve.

See a full list of our most recent legal and policy submissions below:

• Climate
• Energy
• Air Quality
• Aarhus Convention
• Access to Justice
• Adaptation
• Pre-budget submissions
• European Union Law & Policy
• Biodiversity

Climate

1. Submission on Carbon Budgets 3 & 4 

2. Submission on Ireland’s Climate Action Plan 2024 

3. Call for Expert Evidence – Climate Action Plan 2024 Consultation 

4. Submission on Ireland’s National Long Term Strategy 

5. Open letter on Ireland’s 2023 Climate Action Plan 

6. Submission on Ireland’s Territorial Just Transition Draft Plan  

7. Submission on Carbon Budgets 1 & 2  

8. Submission on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020 

9. Submission on the ‘Climate Conversations’ – Climate Action Plan 2021
10. Submission on the General Scheme of the Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Bill 2025
11. Submission concerning the Dublin Airport (Passenger Cap) Bill 2026.
12. Submission on the 2026 update of the Climate Action Plan

Energy

1. Submission on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities’ Large Energy Users (LEU) connection policy. 

2. Submission on the revised Energy Poverty Action Plan.  

3. Submission on a new Energy Poverty Action Plan 

4. Joint call and recommendations for a new Energy Poverty Strategy 

5. Submission on the Development of a new Solid Fuel Regulation for Ireland  

Air Quality

1. CLM & EJNI Joint Submission on Ireland’s National Air Pollution Control Programme Consultation (NAPCP) 

2. Open Letter on the National Clean Air Strategy 

3. Submission on the development of a national Clean Air Strategy 
4. CLM Submission to the Public Consultation on Updating the Clean Air Strategy 2025.

Aarhus Convention

1. Submission to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee  2025. 

2. Submission on the Review of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007-20 

3. Submission on the review of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007-2018 

Access to Justice

1. Submission on Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation 
2. CLM Opening Statement to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport to discuss the General Scheme of the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026.

2. Submission on the Planning and Development Bill 2022 

3. CLM & FIE Joint Submission on the General Scheme of the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019.
4. CLM Submission on the General Scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025
5. CLM Submission on the U.N. Call for Input: Planning and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment 2026.
6. Response to the Consultation on Ireland’s draft Plan of Action pursuant to Decision VIII/8h of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention

Adaptation

1. Submission on the draft sectoral Adaptation Plan for Biodiversity 2025. 

2. Submission on the National Adaptation Framework 

Pre-Budget Submissions

1. Pre-budget submission 2026

2. Pre-budget submission 2024 

3. Pre-Budget submission 2023 

4. Pre-Budget submission 2022 

5. Pre-Budget submission 2021 

European Union Law & Policy

1. Submission on Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 

2. Response to the EU’s proposed European Climate Law Amendment. 

3. Response to the EU’s call for evidence on simplifying environmental legislation. 

Biodiversity

1. Response to the first public consultation on Ireland’s draft National Nature Restoration Plan