The first is effectively addressing nutrient pollution, which is the main cause of the blue-green algal crisis in Lough Neagh. <\/p>\n
The report said that pollution by nutrients from agriculture and wastewater was “a longstanding, severe and chronic problem that affects the economy, society and environment”. <\/p>\n
And it said tackling nutrient pollution was crucial to achieving the EIP’s targets and outcomes for air, water and land quality, or for nature’s recovery, and climate change. <\/p>\n
The second priority area is speeding up action on the circular economy – this approach seeks to keep products in use for as long as possible, reducing waste. <\/p>\n
The OEP said this was essential to address the underlying drivers of environmental degradation and nature loss. <\/p>\n
And the third priority is ensuring nature’s recovery. <\/p>\n
Northern Ireland is regarded as one of the most nature-depleted parts of the world, with 12% of species at risk of extinction. <\/p>\n
The OEP said a focus on restoration and nature-positive use of land and sea was key to delivering the EIP’s strategic environmental outcomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first is effectively addressing nutrient pollution, which is the main cause of the blue-green algal crisis in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663185","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\/663185","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=663185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}