'Failure to combat climate change not an option'
Thursday September 10 2009
JUNIOR Agriculture Minister Tony Killeen TD has told forestry industry experts from throughout Europe that failure with regard to climate change is not an option.
Speaking at the opening of the European Forest Institute (EFI) Conference in Dublin Castle, Deputy Killeen spoke of the need for European countries, through the EFI, to work together and pool resources to seek solutions to climate change and to advance our knowledge base.
"The EFI is gradually becoming a European Forest laboratory without walls, where resources are shared and solutions found. Ireland's full membership of the EFI will open up a new relationship with other member countries. I will follow closely the role that Ireland and the EFI can play together in advancing the European forest knowledge base," he said.
The EFI is an independent non-governmental organisation conducting European forest research. The Institutes' work forms an extensive researcher network across Europe, promoting and conducting research on forests, forestry and forestry products.
There are three Irish associate members of the EFI . UCD, Coillte and the Forest Service of DAFF.
