Evidence of environmental damage was “no longer abstract, technical or distant”, said NRW’s chair Neil Sachdev.<\/p>\n
“It is visible on our doorsteps: flooded homes, polluted rivers, failing soils, collapsing wildlife, unaffordable energy bills, rising food costs, and communities living with growing risk and uncertainty.<\/p>\n
“Let us be clear, incremental change will not save us. We cannot regulate our way out of this. We cannot recycle our way out of this,” he said.<\/p>\n
Derek Walker, Wales’ future generations commissioner, said restoring nature was “a literal life-and-death issue, and everyone has a role in it”.<\/p>\n
The report was “essential reading for NRW itself, but also for economists, financial planners, land managers, health professionals, ministers and decision-makers,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The strongest levers for change sit in the decisions we make across public policy, investment and delivery, not only within the environmental sector.”<\/p>\n
Climate Change Secretary and Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said the report’s “robust assessment of the challenges facing our natural environment” would “play an important role in the development of our future natural resources policy in Wales”.<\/p>\n
“Protecting and enhancing nature is essential for people today, and for future generations,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The people of Wales have made real progress but we need to go further again. <\/p>\n
“This report sets out how we can work together to respond, strengthening action to restore nature, tackle pollution and build resilience to climate change,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The Welsh government will lead this work alongside partners across the public sector, business and communities to turn evidence into meaningful action.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evidence of environmental damage was “no longer abstract, technical or distant”, said NRW’s chair Neil Sachdev. “It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}