Former president tells conference ‘time is of the essence’ to incentivise behavioural change required to address climate crisis
Is it better to buy an electric car now or to wait? Conor Pope and Michael McAleer debate the optionsThe global climate movement, including Fridays for the Future led by young activists, was “bruised” because so much effort has gone in and so little seems to be coming the right way with slow progress on moving to a much better, healthier world, she said.
She confirmed that she no longer has a car and travels in Ireland mainly by public transport. She has to fly when travelling abroad because of tight scheduling of meetings. “At the moment we’re losing because we’re not moving fast enough and that, you know, so it’s not just at Government and Oireachtas level. It’s also at local authority level, at city level.”
The business community has a key role in engaging and negotiating a genuine just transition for the world but is being distracted from this, said Glenn Gillard, sustainability market lead with Deloitte Ireland One of the key drivers of that is the intergenerational nature of the workplace today and the role that those different voices in an organisation are making, Mr Gillard said. “We are definitely seeing that strength of voice from the younger people within the within our organisations, having a clearer view and holding leadership accountable for the fact that you cannot just look at the bottom line, you need to look wider than that.
Participants in the Children and Young People’s Assembly of Biodiversity also addressed the conference. Niamh said their “contributions cannot be allowed to be merely tokenistic or a long standing cry for change”.
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