Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. David Owens:

This is the first time we are trying to mainstream it. Again, I refer to the detailed annex to the Commission delegated regulation on biodiversity which lists pollution prevention and control, protection and restoration of biodiversity ecosystems, determining whether economic activity caused no significant harm and so on. There is huge detail in the European documents and these are law. That is where measurement will come in. Measures are already in place in our well-being framework that look at water quality and so on, but specifically on biodiversity, that is the source.