Speaking at the reception, Fred Edwards (LINK President) will call the environment movement ‘prophetic’. He will argue that public perception about environmental issues has become ‘the stuff of headlines’ and the ‘There is the dawning of a wider realization of the seriousness of these matters’. He will praise the work done by the Executive on the Strategic Environment Assessment Act, which ‘places a substantial tool in the hands of those charged with caring for our environment’ and applaud the launch of ‘Choosing Our Future’ that will help to bring about real sustainability….
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