DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18495981
title: Paul R Price - 2026 - Consistent Paris Test analysis of CCAC 2024 Proposal - Excel workbook

description: Analysis: "Consistent Paris Test assessment of the 2024 Proposal for Ireland’s 2031–2040 carbon budgets".Workbook includes CCAC Dec. 2024 Proposal source data with derived analysis by Paul R Price:The workbook is the basis for: Price, P, (2026-02) "Consistent Paris Test assessment of the 2024 Proposal for Ireland’s 2031–2040 carbon budgets". Working Paper Research Report. Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI). See: https://ejni.net/publications/   link ==>

 

Funding for written report print finalisation from Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI).



Note LICENCE tab and disclaimers. Please use with due care, see documentation below and within each sheet


Source Data (black tab sheets): Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC)


Source Data 1: CCAC "Carbon Budget Emissions Scenario Viewer" link ==> 


Source Data 2: CCAC "Temperature Analysis Viewer"  ==> 


Source Data 3: CCAC LULUCF data for 2051–2100, from CCAC Secretariat received by personal communication


For further detail on the CCAC temperature analysis, please see Ireland's Warming Impact Analysis Report  link ==>


ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Thanks to the Climate Change Advisory Council Secretariat for additional data and information received by email.


Workbook analysis based on the above CCAC source data by Paul R Price. 


Contact e-mail:  paul.price.climate@gmail.com.  Please advise of any errors in this workbook.


Project: "Consistent Paris Test assessment of the 2024 Proposal for Ireland’s 2031–2040 carbon budgets". February 2026 Paul R PriceWorking paper research report for Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI)


Workbook units and abbreviations include: kt (kilotonnes), Mt (Megatonnes = millions of tonnes), ºC (degrees Celcius "upscaled" to global impact level), mºC (milli-degrees Celcius). Using these  units, separate sheets may be provided for Annual values and Cumulative values (from the start of 2021).


KNOWN WORKBOOK ISSUES: A circular reference issue occurred just before Zenodo upload likely due to a minor chart #REF error.


DISCLAIMER: Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of thematerial contained in this spreadsheet workbook, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Neither Paul Price nor Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI) accept any responsibility whatsoever for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting or refrainingfrom acting, as a result of a matter contained in this spreadsheet workbook.


OBJECTIVE and the key Paris Test basis for the analysis methodology:This workbook and its analysis is presented on a "good enough" (Wilson et al. 2017) basis to support the associated report and to allow independent researchers to interrogate it.The CCAC 2021 Paris Test is as described in the CCAC (2021) Carbon Budget Technical Report (based on the use of GWP* calculation) and as corrected in McMullin, Barry, Paul R Price, and Aideen O’Dochartaigh. ‘Defining a “Paris Test” of National Contribution to Global Climate Mitigation: The Irish Exemplar’. Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 4 (2024): 041006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3660.