Environment
Farming for carbon - beware of double counting
There seems every prospect that farming for carbon will have a strong role to play within Irish agriculture as the...
Dr. Frank Mitloehner
Agri-Business
Air quality scientist: 'We have to rethink methane'
An air quality specialist has told a meeting that we need to change the narrative when it comes to how...
Environment
Is 'eating our way out of climate change' a runner?
The climate impact of going vegan for two years is the equivalent of one transatlantic flight per passenger – meaning...
Dairy
Carbon leakage: Mitloehner warns why a national herd cut could backfire
Reducing the herd size in Ireland “wouldn’t do anything” for the climate, due to carbon leakage – someone else filling...
Dairy
Latest science on methane emissions 'ignored' by media - Dr. Mitloehner
A “major, new narrative” on accurately quantifying methane emissions from livestock is largely supported by the science community – but...
Environment
'Agriculture is going full throttle; yet emissions remain the same' - US scientist
Agriculture is going “full throttle” across the globe, yet the sector’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remain at pre-Covid-19 levels, it...
Environment
'Methane is different from other GHGs' - climate council chair
The way methane is treated and measured in climate change science is “probably not appropriate”, according to the chairperson of...
Environment
Dr. Mitloehner issues warning on increasing herd sizes
While there is not necessarily a need to cut herd sizes for the purpose of climate change mitigation, increasing numbers...
Environment
IFA climate change event gets underway in Dublin
An event examining Irish farming’s role in climate change, organised by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), is taking place in...
Agri Politics
'California is reducing methane levels without losing a single livestock unit' - Dr. Mitloehner
California, the largest agricultural state in the US, is succeeding in its bid to reduce methane emissions – without losing...
Agri Politics
'The amount of carbon Irish grassland sequesters might be massive' - Dr. Mitloehner
Agriculture and forestry combined are “a greater sink than source of greenhouse gases (GHGs)”, according to global air pollution expert...
Beef
'It is not new carbon that we have; it is recycled carbon' - Dr. Mitloehner on livestock-related emissions
Livestock emissions are “completely different” than fossil fuel emissions. This is a key message laboured by Dr. Frank Mitloehner –...
Environment
How the global attack on agricultural emissions began; meet Dr. Frank Mitloehner...
The year was 2006. The President of Ireland: Mary McAleese; the Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern (Fianna Fáil); the Minister for Agriculture:...