The ESG welcomes the newly appointed Minister for the Environment, Fabian Vinet. What has been described as a new Ministry for the Environment will also include public transport. The ESG welcomes this change as it has always considered both areas to be interlinked with many overlapping issues.

That said, the ESG will look forward to an early appointment with the Minister in the New Year in order to present all our concerns and recommendations and to also discuss the Environmental Charter included in the GSD manifesto.

The ESG should add that all political parties have expressed their intentions on our Environment in the recent election campaign and we welcome this heightened profile and manifesto pledges.

The ESG believes that it stands to reason that a proactive and long-term management of our local, regional and global environment must be good news for Gibraltar and the world it inhabits.