A FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL
SAFETY GROUP’S WISHLIST
1.- CLIMATE CHANGE
Gibraltar has serious challenges on its journey
towards becoming carbon neutral.
Our Government has declared a Climate Emergency
Pledge and the ESG has joined with other local
environmental and heritage NGOs to press for an
ambitious and independently monitored programme
for the decarbonising of our community.
This coalition known as the ‘Coalition for Climate
Action’ has emerged from public meetings organi-
sed by the ESG in 2019, in response to the growing
local and global civic call for action on climate
change.
The coalition wants urgent action on:
- Transport.
- Energy.
- Pollution.
- Waste.
- Development.
- Trade in Fossil Fuel.
We call for a funded and cross party supported,
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independent climate body with a main focus to
transition away from a carbon intensive society.
They would be tasked with the rolling out of an
agreed programme with strict timeframes and
changes agreed would be imposed on all future
administrations.
2.- ADHERENCE TO EU (OR HIGHER)
ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS BE-
YOND BREXIT
ESG commends the Government’s commitment to
continue to apply EU environmental standards in Gi-
braltar, even once out of the European Commission,
and expects all parties to sustain this.
As stated above, our ideal objective would be to
see higher than EU standards applied when these
fail to deliver adequate protection.
Additionally, our aim now, under a Climate Change
Pledge, would be to set goals that will radically
transform our industry, transport, and trade to de-
carbonise Gibraltar as far as possible and as quickly
as can be done. (i.e. a change in approach and
strategy and not merely a legal requirement).
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