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VistaMilk SFI Research Centre has launched a €1.4 million carbon sequestration project. The project is in collaboration with Dairy Research Ireland, the group that allocates funding from the dairy levy collected from Irish dairy farmers. Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it in plant material or in the soil. Carbon stored in soils is often called soil organic carbon. It is vital for soil health, improving their workability, w...

April 14, 2021 6:04 pm Achieving ambitious emission reduction targets as set down under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill would “require a substantial reduction in the amount of agricultural activity in Ireland, Teagasc has said. In his opening statement at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine earlier today (Wednesday, April 14), which was meeting to discuss the new bill and its implications for agriculture, Teagasc director Prof. Ge...

Last month, a High Court case commenced between Glanbia Ireland and An Taisce over proposed plans to build a €140m continental cheese plant in Belview, Co Kilkenny. The judicial review centres on the decision of An Bord Pleanála to uphold planning permission for the joint venture between Glanbia and Dutch dairy producer Royal A-Ware Food Group – a family-owned company in business for the last 150 years. An Taisce pursued the judicial review – heard by Judge Richard Humphreys – as it c...

Civil society organizations, advocacy groups and private citizens increasingly use courts to hold governments accountable for their climate inaction.

Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images A Paris court has found the French government guilty of failing to adequately address climate change in a landmark ruling that climate campaigners Four environmental groups — Greenpeace France, It’s Everyone’s Business, Oxfam France, and the Foundation for Nature and Mankind — filed the case in 2018 after 2.3 million people signed a petition expressing dissatisfaction with how the French government was handling its efforts to curb global warming. The ...

Mức sẵn lòng chi trả dịch vụ môi trường rừng ngập mặn tại Việt Nam: Trường hợp nghiên cứu tại Hải Phòng Export citation Thông điệp chính Đa số tàu cá và tàu du lịch được phỏng vấn sẵn sàng chi trả để bảo vệ và phát triển rừng ngập mặn bởi theo họ rừng ngập mặn cung cấp các dịch vụ chính như vẻ đẹp cảnh quan, bảo vệ đê điều, và bảo tồn đa dạng sinh học.

Ireland Stepping Up Climate Action Following Court Ruling New climate commitments follow finding that the country’s climate action plan fell far short of requirements. Robbie Galvin December 17, 2020 Clodagh Daly, a spokesperson for Irish environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), describes the scene when her organization took Ireland’s government to court in January 2019. “It was a four-day hearing, and it was absolutely packed. There were people from all wa...

Tadhg OMahony: Our transport system is suffocating us, but the seeds of transformation lie in wait Our transport system is suffocating us, but the seeds of a transformation are already here and we must grow them further, writes Tadhg O’Mahony. Globally, transport is associated with significant death and injury, from air pollution and road traffic accidents, while traffic congestion imposes major costs on economies. Picture: Larry Cummins Thu, 17 Dec, 2020 - 06:30 Tadhg OMahony  December is ...