Civic leaders in Kilkenny have launched a plan which aims to help the area reduce carbon emissions by more than half by 2030 and make the city and county more liveable and sustainable.
'Full Forward Kilkenny 2030' is designed to act as a"guiding principle" for what the area will be like to live, work and visit by the end of the decade, when more people will be calling Kilkenny home and more jobs will be in place.
As part of Full Forward Kilkenny 2030, Kilkenny is acting as the lead authority in the Eastern Region for a Public Lighting Efficiency Project, with Kilkenny managing this for eight other counties. He said that any plans for development must now take all such contingencies into consideration."The most important thing in this is that we have to make sure that we're conscious of the environment," Mr Butler said.
"We see people from so many different backgrounds and cultures and people with various different abilities and strengths so it's important to harness those going forward, get ideas and input from everyone and everyone's perspective so that we can have a Kilkenny that supports everyone's potential," she said.