Climate change report overdue by four months, Brincat insists

Article from MaltaToday.com.mt

Labour’s main spokesperson for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Leo Brincat has asked what had happened of the report on climate change commissioned by Resources’ Minister George Pullicino last August.

Brincat lamented that despite the fact that this committee was supposed to have concluded its job by last March, “Despite the fact that four months have passed from that date, we have never heard that the report has been neither concluded, nor published.”

“One hopes that this work does not procrastinate further while wishing that as happened with the climate change mitigation report, this report should be discussed in Parliament as soon as possible after the Summer holidays,” Brincat augured.

However, he warned that the most important thing in this respect is not only to have a report but also to have a benchmarking mechanism “so that the agreed measures can be measured and their implementation even monitored”.

Brincat insisted how such a report was needed for Malta because it would lead for a strategy “on how to adapt for the effects of climate change in a number of sectors, including health, water and flooding, up to farming, tourism and biodiversity”.

 

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