We want to hear your ideas about Malta’s environmental future - Victor Axiak

Following the publication of the State of the Environment Report in 2018, the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) has been focusing on the development of the National Strategy for the Environment (NSE). This strategy will set the direction and the pace to achieve the state of the environment that we are aiming for, incrementally, within one generation.

As a first step therefore, ERA’s initial task was to develop a vision that the National Strategy for the Environment will strive to achieve over the next 30 years. 

This first milestone has been achieved. And in so doing, we remained true to the commitment we took in 2018, when we associated the phrase ‘My Environment. My Turn’ to our analysis on the state of our environment. Why? Because the vision that ERA has concluded for the National Strategy for the Environment is of seeking a well-being first reality, which places you at the core and which plans to mobilise all sectors of society for their benefit and that of the environment.

In fact, the well-being vision will be guiding the NSE to seek a strategic alignment across government entities so as to place the environmental, social and economic well-being dimensions at...