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McConalogue confirms 25% reduction in agricultural emissions

Donegal TD and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue says the 25% reduction in agricultural emissions will be a way of offering certainty to farm families and their businesses over the next decade The Government has today ...

29 Jul 2022 at 00:37

Farming & Fishing

Lack of forestry planting will 'come back to bite everyone in the country'

Forestry plantation rates in Donegal have dropped to historically low levels - and we will pay the price for this on several fronts. That was the blunt message from Nicholas Sweetman, Chair of the Irish Forest Owners’ Association - a network of ...

14 Apr 2022 at 09:00

National News

VAT cut won't be added to home heating oil

Hard-pressed householders who use home heating oil to heat their homes will miss out on a proposed Vat rate cut, it has emerged. The Government is expected to announce plans to cut Vat on electricity and gas today to ensure homeowners are not ...

13 Apr 2022 at 13:26

National News

Guinness to cut carbon footprint of pints through agricultural programme

Guinness has launched a major agricultural initiative to cut the carbon footprint of its pints. The Irish brewer described the three-year farm-based programme as one of the most ambitious ever undertaken on the island of Ireland. It is ...

23 Feb 2022 at 11:48

National News

Govt will 'treat the symptoms' to tackle cost of living crisis, says Varadkar

The Tánaiste has played down hopes for another major Government intervention in tackling the rising cost of living. Leo Varadkar said today (Friday April 8) that while the Government is meeting next week to consider further action to ...

08 Apr 2022 at 13:45

Varadkar promises further measures as soaring inflation reaches 6.7%

National News

Varadkar promises further measures as inflation jumps to 6.7%

The Government will “offset” the upcoming rise in the carbon tax, Leo Varadkar has told the Dail. It comes as new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that inflation now sits at 6.7%, the largest annual spike since ...

07 Apr 2022 at 14:35

National News

Government will go ahead with carbon tax increases - Taoiseach confirms

The Government will not be rowing back on plans to introduce the increased carbon tax, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed. With rising fuel costs, there have been calls for the increase to be scrapped as households grapple ...

05 Apr 2022 at 16:15

National News

Taoiseach was warned failure to introduce carbon markets would set back the post-pandemic recovery

Failure to introduce carbon markets, which effectively allow countries to buy and sell emissions reductions, would set back the post-pandemic recovery, the Taoiseach was warned before Cop26. Ian Talbot, the chief executive of ...

03 Jan 2022 at 11:38

National News

New satellite aims to protect world's forests by measuring carbon

A UK-built satellite will measure the Earth’s biomass in a bid to help to protect the planet’s forests and more accurately measure the carbon they hold. The mission will essentially take a scan of the lungs of the Earth, ...

23 Aug 2022 at 18:02

National News

Govt expected to consider new targets for cutting carbon emissions

Proposals on new targets for cutting carbon emissions in key sectors of Ireland’s economy are likely to be put to Government in the coming weeks. It is hoped ministers will be able to agree so-called sectoral emissions ...

20 Jun 2022 at 17:31

National News

Rural people might be better of with electric cars because they have driveways says Eamon Ryan

People in rural Ireland may benefit more than those in urban settings from using electric vehicles, Minister for Transport, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan has suggested. The Green Party leader said this was ...

17 May 2023 at 17:05

National News

Group warns Ireland ‘not sufficiently prepared’ to adapt to climate change

The chair of an independent advisory body to the Government has warned that Ireland “is not sufficiently prepared” to adapt to the levels of climate change it is currently experiencing. Climate Change Advisory ...

20 Mar 2023 at 16:59

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