https://connachttribune.ie/green-plan-key-to-galway-citys-economic-future/

Galway City Tribune, November 8th 2021

In the week where world leaders gathered in Glasgow at COP26 to bang heads together on how to tackle the climate crisis, local environmental activists have reiterated calls for the City Council to sign up to the National Park City initiative or face being ‘left behind’.
At a recent meeting with local representatives and City Council officials, big-scale developers from London – which has already been designated a National Park City – and other locations all made the similar point.
Those speaking at the event discussed how Covid-19 had changed cities and in order to attract those who had abandoned urban life since working from home became possible, ecologically vibrant spaces with green space and waterways at their core would be the only way to bring them back.