Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 5 July 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)
2:05 pm
Ms Anja Murray:
We are looking for specific mention in the Bill that adaptation and mitigation strategies, adopted as part of the Bill and our strategy to achieve those targets, do not negatively impact on nature conservation targets. If we have targets by 2020 and 2050, we should also have legal and policy commitments to halt the loss bio-diversity by 2020. We do not want there to be a conflict and we know there are ways of achieving both in harmony. We want explicit reference to that.
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