CSO 1.2 Ensure that the future growth and spatial development of County Kildare provides for a county that is resilient to climate change, enables the decarbonisation of the county’s economy and reduces the county’s carbon footprint in support of national targets for climate mitigation and adaption objectives as well as targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The creation of a National Peatlands Park will further enable the county to climate change proof the landscape while providing for biodiversity and greenhouse gas emmision reductions.
CSO 1.7 Promote and facilitate the development of sustainable and socially integrated communities through land use planning, by providing for land uses capable of accommodating employment, environmental education, community, leisure, recreational and cultural facilities having regard to the quality of the environment, landscape character and the archaeological and architectural heritage. The intergration of the county's peatlands into a National Peatlands Park will also promote their ecosystem benefits, protect and store carbon and provide for biodiversity while highlighting sustainable living.
CSO 1.8 Support the implementation of Kildare’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders including the creation of a National Peatlands Park to support all climate change adaptions, biodiversity recovery, Sustainable Development Goals and the National Planning Framework.