This study recommends several priority actions to increase the uptake of environmental technologies. A National Steering Group for ETAP implementation in Ireland should be set up in order to coordinate the actions of the many organisations involved. An ETAP Secretariat is required to be a focal point for the activities of the Steering Group and to implement its action plan on a day to day basis. The specific action points of ETAP should be linked with the most suitable organisations active in that field and formal partnerships are required to develop more efficient action frameworks.

Several priority actions are recommended in this study for consideration in order to rectify the current underuse of environmental technologies. These include policy/regulatory initiatives such as new sectoral agreements and producer responsibility schemes (building on previous successes). Increased levels of grant aid to support recycling and improved material efficiency are required as well as economic stimuli for more sustainable agricultural-based alternatives such as biofuels, biomass, anaerobic digestion, etc. Economic incentives are also required in transport, to support more efficient and less emitting alternatives and reverse current trends. Other economic-based instruments such as water charges, green public procurement and soft loans are also recommended and these have been effective elsewhere.

Information-based incentives such as technical support and training, more intensive research, awareness raising programmes (on a variety of subjects) and better labelling of cars and other products are also worthwhile instruments. Given the findings of the Environmental Protection Agency?s (EPA) Environment in Focus 2006 Report, the application of instruments is particularly required in the fields of transport, agriculture and energy/climate change, to ensure a greater uptake of environmental technologies in those sectors and to support Ireland ?s environment and economy into the future.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=34
Resource Keywords	Environmental Technologies ETAP
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2005-ET-DS-M3
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Environmental Technologies
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
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Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	1
Project Start Date	Tuesday 3rd January 2006 (03-01-2006)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Tuesday 3rd January 2006 (03-01-2006)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Monday 2nd April 2007 (02-04-2007)
Published on SAFER	Friday 22nd June 2007 (22-06-2007)
Date of Last Edit	Monday 9th July 2007 at 14:08:29 (09-07-2007)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Monday 25th June 2007 at 10:29:39 (25-06-2007)

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