CLIMATE

John Gibbons: Like Sweden and Wales, we need a Ministry of the Future

Too often, plans to create and safeguard a sustainable future are chipped away to nothing by lobbyists and interest groups in the present. A Ministry of the Future would help fix that

Earlier this year, the Citizens’ Assembly’s recommendations on addressing biodiversity loss were far-reaching and ambitious – yet within weeks, both Fine Gael and Sinn Féin had caved in to agri-industrial lobbyists