Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

By harnessing support for an all-island approach to economic, social, environmental and well-being challenges, NESC can be an important and practical mechanism to encourage everyone on the island to work together. Through ambitious collaboration, we can be more than the sum of our parts. Climate change and protecting biodiversity are urgent problems and we need to deal with them on an all-island basis. In April last year, NESC published the report Shared Island Shared Opportunity, which set out key recommendations across the areas of sustainable agriculture, circular economy, bioeconomy, renewable energy, networks for nature and marine and costal impacts of climate change. Since those recommendations were published 20 months ago, the Just Transition Commission published one report entitled: Just Transition in Agriculture and Land Use. We are in a climate crisis and reports are no use without action. Where is the promised implementation group mentioned in the agriculture report and what progress has been made in the other crucial climate-related areas NESC has been charged with?

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