Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Attracta U? Bhroin:
Ms Loughran put it beautifully when she said that the seas are our best ally in climate change. We absolutely support offshore renewable energy and have been advocating for decarbonisation of our energy systems, but we need to be careful that, in our haste to decarbonise, we do not damage the natural climate management potential of the seas. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, has told us that it is an interdependent climate and biodiversity crisis. It is not one crisis here and another elsewhere, which we can address one at a time, getting to the next one afterwards.
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