The Act amends the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (No. 46 of 2015) (the Principal Act) in several sections, in particular it reformulates under section 3 "the National Climate Objective"; the State shall, so as to reduce the extent of further global warming, pursue and achieve, by no later than the end of the year 2050, the transition to a climate resilient, biodiversity rich, environmentally sustainable and climate neutral economy. For the purpose of enabling the State to pursue and achieve the national climate objective, the Minister shall make and submit to the Government for approval (a) carbon budgets; (b) a sectoral emissions ceiling; (c) a climate action plan; (d) a national long term climate action strategy; (e) a national adaptation framework. It also provides for the role of local authorities; each local authority shall prepare and make a "local authority climate action plan" which shall specify the mitigation measures and the adaptation measures to be adopted by the local authority.