{"id":6899,"date":"2020-02-26T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seedsavers.willowdigital-1.com\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:48:53","slug":"programme-for-government-for-a-climate-and-nature-friendly-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/2020\/02\/26\/programme-for-government-for-a-climate-and-nature-friendly-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme for Government for a climate and nature friendly future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland\u2019s leading environmental coalitions have called on all parties entering discussions to form the next Government to put biodiversity and climate breakdown front and centre in the next Dail.
\nWriting to party leaders, the Irish Environmental Network and the Environmental Pillar have called on them to ensure that the next Programme for Government follows its five-point plan to bring both our natural world and the Irish people into the dawn of a zero-carbon world:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0Ramped up funding for environmental NGOs working to protect our natural world [1]
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0Creation of a unified biodiversity and climate Department under one cabinet Minister [2]
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0Citizens\u2019 Assembly session on Biodiversity Loss [3]
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0Faster and Fairer Climate Action to ensure annual emissions reductions of at least eight per cent a year over the lifetime of the next Government [4]
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0Kick-start a circular economy revolution in line with the European Green Deal [5]
\nOur letter builds on the Pillar\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>10-point election manifesto<\/a>\u00a0and is available here:\u00a0httpss:\/\/tinyurl.com\/vrh6bms<\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/a>The Coordinator of the Environmental Pillar, Karen Ciesielski, said:
\n\u201cA key test for all the parties vying to enter Government is will they commit to protecting biodiversity and turning the tide on climate inaction. For too long, we have taken small strides when we need a giant leap forward in this critical time for the natural world and our own survival.
\n\u201cTackling biodiversity protection and climate action are key to ensuring a just transition for both our natural world and the Irish people into the new dawn of a zero-carbon world, and need to be battled in tandem.
\n\u201cNow is the time for politicians to step up and commit to decisive action to halt the biodiversity and climate crisis. We don\u2019t have another five years to wait for action. We hope our political parties feel the same way.
\n\u201cThere is no trade off with better public services, job creation and economic opportunity here. The dawning of a Green New Deal for Ireland is all improving the public service, creating new green jobs and creating new economic opportunities in the green and circular economy of the future.
\n\u201cThe next 10 years are absolutely critical in addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency. It is therefore essential that the next Government prioritises the environment and responds with the urgency and swift actions that are required.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ireland\u2019s leading environmental coalitions have called on all parties entering discussions to form the next Government to put biodiversity and climate breakdown front and centre in the next Dail. Writing to party leaders, the Irish Environmental Network and the Environmental Pillar have called on them to ensure that the next Programme for Government follows its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishseedsavers.ie\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}