EENGO submission - risk and resilience

[Caroline Whyte]

In the course of the next few weeks we will be gradually be uploading the recent Environmental (Ecological) NGO submission to the Irish National Sustainable Development Strategy to this website. The EENGO is an umbrella group of Irish NGOs which includes Feasta, and the submission discusses the urgent need for a change in Irish governmental policy on the environment. It emphasises the importance of effective risk management, a focus on wellbeing rather than GDP as a goal, recognition of commons rights in addition to information, communication and participation rights, and decentralised and democratised energy and carbon capture.

You can currently download the executive summary and first chapter from this link: http://www.feasta.org/documents/eengo/eengo.htm. Any comments on the first chapter, which covers the topic of risk and resilience, are very welcome.