The value of Cyprus’ green ‘trailblazers’

From forest conservation to the circular economy

By Martin Clark
At a national, European-wide or international level, environmental policy is usually reactive. It comes about due to an acute problem-generated pressure which can no longer be ignored. Countries like Japan, the US and the United Kingdom were early in setting up environmental institutions that drew attention to severe pollution of the environment back in 1970.

In the early 1980s in the European Union – back then...