Climate & Environment

Government to publish environment policy position next year

Laura Burke, director general of the EPA, said a national policy position on the environment should be a “no brainer” but still hadn’t been devised

A spokesman for the Department of Environment confirmed that the government would publish a national policy position on the environment in 2023.

A national policy position on the environment will be published by the government next year, the Business Post has learned.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ireland’s environmental regulator, had been calling for an overarching policy position on the environment for many years.

In its 2020 State of the Environment Report, the EPA said the Irish government needed to form an “overall integrated national environmental policy position, or it risks existing environmental protection measures failing or ...