#republic of ireland

In 2012, the Republic of Ireland passed a law which made that political parties lose half of their state funding if they do not put forward at least 30% female or 30% male candidates for elections. The result was that in the next general election in 2016, 40% more women were elected raising the number of women in the Dáil Éireann, the Irish lower house of parliament, to 22%.

In January 2019, the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels. The Irish government sold €68m worth of stock in 38 companies involved in oil, gas and other fossil fuels following a July 2018 law passed by the Irish parliament that forced the country’s €8 billon national investment fund to divest from fossil fuels as part of the country’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.