Irish Examiner view: Politicians need to lead, not dither

Nature Restoration Law

It was extraordinary to see what has occurred in the EU with the Nature Restoration Law.

One would have thought that by now the urgency of the climate crisis was beyond question, with the markers of deterioration appearing regularly. 

Last week it was an alarming revelation about the numbers of species threatened with extinction; yesterday it was President Michael D Higgins’s warning at the opening of Bloom and the news that Ireland will wildly miss its 2030 emissions reduction targets.