St Helena : NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN – WE’D LIKE YOUR VIEWS
Submitted by Saint Helena Herald (Public Relations Information Office) 21.07.2012 (Article Archived on 04.08.2012)

A draft National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) which falls under Goal Three of St Helena’s Sustainable Development Plan – Effective Management of the Environment - is now out for public consultation.

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN – WE’D LIKE YOUR VIEWS

A draft National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) which falls under Goal Three of St Helena’s Sustainable Development Plan – Effective Management of the Environment - is now out for public consultation.

The Plan looks out over the next 10 years and aims to mainstream management of the environment. This will be done through a set of high level environmental objectives and targets for St Helena, and by the implementation of processes to ensure that these objectives are properly considered in legislation, policy, planning and decision-making.

Councillor Raymond Williams, Chair of the Natural Resources Development and Environment Committee, in his foreword to the Plan states:

‘The environment impacts us all, and this plan is not, and cannot be, just a Government Plan, it is a plan for the whole Island. Having branded our Island as ‘green’, we all need to take environmental management seriously’.

Miss St Helena 2012 Leoni Ellick, in her foreword written from a young person’s perspective, adds:

“It is very pleasing to see that St Helena has developed its first National Environmental Management Plan’.

Public consultation closes on 13 August 2012 and we are very keen to gauge the views of the public, and to have your comments, thoughts and ideas.

The NEMP can now be downloaded from the homepage of the SHG website:

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