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While meeting the targets will be a challenge, farmers are ready to play their part, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). Reacting…
Teagasc has identified 25 measures for livestock farmers to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, according to director of Teagasc, Prof. Gerry Boyle. Speaking to…
There are opportunities for Irish farmers in the sequestration of carbon in grassland – but this is still “very much down the road”,…
The means to pay farmers for sequestering carbon are being considered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a “strategic…
While hedgerows are currently not accounted for in relation to the calculation of Ireland’s compliance with emissions targets to 2020, from 2021 onward…
Bord Na Móna has been appointed to project manage the implementation of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht’s 2020 national protected…
Hemp – a vegetable regulated as a controlled drug – has the ability to sequester 15t of carbon per hectare and is “the…
It is “critical” that Ireland’s 6% of hedgerows are included in calculations when it comes to the country’s carbon sequestration figures. This argument…
A senior figure in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) has said that farmers “need to be rewarded” as…
Recently, global air pollution expert, Dr. Frank Mitloehner – during a series of interviews with AgriLand – highlighted recent US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
