Local science must inform climate targets

Measuring methane emissions in dairy cows, Teagasc, Moorepark, Co Cork. \ Donal O'Leary
There are many important issues currently facing NI farming, but the one area that is really going to shape the future is carbon emissions.
With DAERA officials working on a Climate Change Bill, and under pressure from Minister Poots to get it delivered before the end of the current Assembly in March 2022, it is an area likely to attract much debate in the next 12 months.
Driving wider UK policy are targets set by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the body set up to give advice to government on emission reduction. In NI, the CCC has recommended a 48% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels) and an 82% reduction by 2050.

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