Ms Anja Murray:

The habitats and the birds directives would be explicitly for nature conservation. I do not think there would be a conflict in anything there counteracting what we do. The SEA directive has a specific clause stating that climate change and bio-diversity elements shall be incorporated into strategic environmental assessment. A number of those already have a statement. What we want here, as we develop strategies, is that an onus is placed on each sector, so that there are sectoral action plans which reflect the need to meet bio-diversity and climate change targets simultaneously.