Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Martha O'Hagan-Luff:

I would like to make an additional point on the previous question. The futures commissioner is important because, as the Deputy rightly said, we have the electoral cycle and short-term thinking. A futures commissioner gets us out of that and allows the system to incorporate long-term thinking.

On GDP, Bloomberg reported that the proportion of GDP spent on cleaning up after catastrophic weather events is increasing.