2010 was supposed to have been the year that the loss in biodiversity was halted. Alas this was not to be so EU leaders have decided to set a new deadline, this time 2020 (and who knows, perhaps in tens years time we might have another deadline of 2030). In Ireland we do not even have a national Biodiversity Action Plan - a key requirement under the Convention on Biological Diversity which was signed by our government way back in 1992 - since the first (and only) one expired in 2007. So do we have any confidence that 2020 will be any better then 2010 for our natural heritage? Hardly.
Is this another sad indictment of our so-called 'Green' Environment Minister's lack of political will to tackle important environmental issues?
Isn't it about time that the Irish Government committed itself to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Aarhus Treaty? What a waste of the past 3 years.
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