Gormley Launches Report On Climate Change

The report discusses the implications of climate change for Irish cultural and natural heritage and for the Irish tourism sector.  It goes on to look at what can be done to adapt to potential impacts within these sectors.

Welcoming the report, the Minister said: "Climate change presents an immediate and significant threat to our natural and built environments and to ways of life which co-exist within these environments.

"Climate change is happening and even if we are successful in terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, the impacts from the build up of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is something we are going to have to grapple with for many decades to come."

The Minister noted the expanding corpus of work now being published on climate change adaptation which he said was indicative of the increased attention which was being given to this important aspect of the climate change agenda. "What is particularly striking is the way both Failte Ireland and the Heritage Council have used the research outputs to assess the implications of climate change in their sectors. We need more of this kind of approach and I feel that this work provides a template which could be followed in other sectors", concluded the Minister.