Vivienne ClarkeMinister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said the country needs to recognise the reality that coastal erosion will impact thousands of homes across Ireland. “We have to manage and protect our coasts and our people and we can do that,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show. Mr Ryan was responding to the new National Coastal Change Management strategy, which warns that thousands of homeowners and businesses could have to abandon their properties under national policies to deal with rising sea levels and major coastal change. “Because as I said, as well as rising sea levels and the coastal erosion impacts, we’re also seeing greater flood levels and particularly very strong storms, storm surges. It was looking at the “whole of the river basin, from mountain right down to the sea.” This would require a much wider adaptation strategy to adapt to climate change.

Source: The Herald October 31, 2023 14:55 UTC