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What is Zero Together?
Zero Together brings together a broad range of perspectives and experience to work towards a shared goal of moving Dublin away from fossil fuels as soon as possible.
The Zero Together initiative aims to:
1) provide a space for ongoing collaboration,
2) hold decision-makers to account, and
3) engage and include the people of Dublin in the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy.
A draft “roadmap” has been developed to support these aims. This document outlines core strategic objectives and actions to help us reduce emissions across Dublin as soon as possible. Please bear in mind, as this document was developed through a collaborative process in 2021 and 2022, there are policies and plans that have since been published that will inform the next iteration of this roadmap in 2024.
We’d like to extend our gratitude to all of the organisations and individuals who contributed to this roadmap and have provided feedback on this draft. We look forward to incorporating what we’ve learnt and discussed into the next version of this roadmap next year.
Download Draft Roadmap3 Core Principles
To ensure our vision and strategy is fair and impactful, Zero Together is grounded in three core principles.
Collaboration
Zero Together creates a space for necessary groups to come together to accelerate Dublin’s move away from fossil fuels.
Read morePublic Engagement and Communication
Zero Together aims to provide accessible information on how we can move Dublin away from fossil fuels and opportunities for the people of Dublin to participate and have their say.
Read moreScientific Evidence
Zero Together is guided by the best available global, national and regional information and scientific evidence.
Read moreBackground to Zero Together
The story of Zero Together starts in 2019, when the four Dublin Local Authorities, the Dublin Metropolitan Climate Action Regional Office (CARO) and the Dublin energy agency Codema came together to collaborate on and produce Climate Change Action Plans (CCAPs) for each local authority. We carried out an extensive consultation period with the public and organised a series of very well attended public information events so that the people of Dublin could learn more about how the councils are acting on climate change.
While there were hundreds of submissions and the Plans were very well received overall, the CCAPs only tackled areas within the councils’ own remit and the public wanted to know what the plan was for the whole of Dublin.
This – coupled with the fact that the public sector only accounts for 5% of total emissions in the whole of Dublin – highlighted the urgency to create a plan that would address the entire Dublin region and tackle the remaining 95% of emissions. This would involve bringing all the relevant sectors together for the first time to agree and develop the best strategy for our capital towards 2030 and 2050.
This task is immense and requires a whole-of-society effort. There is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to Ireland’s energy transition, as every region across the country has different needs both in terms of solutions and support, requiring a response that is fit for purpose.
With this in mind, Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency, recognised a need to address the energy transition at a local level and from this, the Zero Together initiative was born. With support from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the EU Horizon 2020 TOMORROW project, the four Dublin Local Authorities and the Dublin Metropolitan Climate Action Regional Office (CARO), Codema has created a draft collaborative roadmap grounded in the best available evidence to meet our emission-reduction targets.
Zero Together has the potential to support the action needed to rapidly reduce Dublin’s emissions, achieving real impact to transform Dublin into a healthier and more vibrant region that we can all be proud to live, study and work in.
Codema
Codema is Dublin’s energy agency working on behalf of the four Dublin Local Authorities. Codema’s mission is to accelerate Dublin’s low-carbon transition and is leading the Zero Together initiative.
TOMORROW
TOMORROW was an EU funded Horizon 2020 project with the aim of empowering local authorities to lead the transition towards low-carbon cities by engaging citizens and stakeholders in the development of 2050 transition roadmaps. The TOMORROW project supported the creation of Zero Together and development of the draft roadmap.