Groups urge action on climate change

SOME of the country’s leading aid agencies, environmental and community groups have made a combined call on all parties in the upcoming election to place the issue of climate change at the top of thepolitical agenda.

Representatives of more than 20 groups said yesterday that such a measure was necessary from the next Government in order for Ireland to play its role in tackling the single biggest problem faced by people across the globe.

Among the organisations groups participating in the Stop Climate Chaos campaign are Trócaire, Concern, Friends of the Earth, the National Youth Council of Ireland, An Taisce and Christian Aid.