Joining Mario to review RTE`s Climate week was environmental columnist John Gibbons and his daughter Simone. There were a range of programmes broadcast on TV and radio by RTE to highlight the subject of climate change, the impact and the possible solutions. John notes that there were hopeful messages and ultimately the solutions that need to be adhered to are ones that give nature a chance.

Mario asks John if there was only one change that Ireland could do -what would he suggest?

"We have the best wind speeds in western Europe with  inter connectors directly to France, we could be selling billions of euros of clean renewable energy"

He notes that we ship off  €6 billion worth of  payments for fossil fuels that leave this country every year knowing the damage that they are doing instead of being a major exporter on to the European grid.

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