Climate & Environment
Chambers Ireland: Ireland’s planning system is a roadblock hindering climate progress
The business association said the current planning process made it harder to achieve the EU’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Chambers Ireland, a body that represents Irish businesses, has said that Ireland’s current planning system hinders progress on climate change.
Speaking at the joint Oireachtas Environment and Climate Action Committee later today, Shane Conneely, Chambers Ireland director of policy, Shane Conneely, will say: "Our planning system has become the single greatest hurdle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
“We are more than halfway towards 2030, but on Climate Action is seems as though the attainment ...