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.