Professor John Sweeney:

There is not much I can add. Climate change and biodiversity are, of course, inextricably linked. Given the long list of considerations in that section, one might have thought that, for example, the phrase "the social and economic importance of biodiversity" might have been added, or perhaps "the social and economic importance of tourism" which is also strongly linked to biodiversity, agriculture and climate.

Those are aspects on which I again agree with the previous comments. We do not need to go into a long catalogue of things, because what we need to see is that the Government, or the Minister at the time, is considering the critical aspect of climate change in this regard and also taking into consideration any aspect which might adversely impact on biodiversity. For most cases, however, tackling climate issues will mean doing well on biodiversity as well. There may be the odd instance where there are contradictory processes at work, but they are few and far between.

I thank Senator Boylan for her comments on biogenic methane. It is not mentioned at all in the 2018 IPCC report to which she referred. I do not even like the term "biogenic methane" because-----