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Companies in Ireland ‘on track’ with setting emissions targets Image: © yuplex/Stock.adobe.com More than two-thirds of businesses in Ireland signed up to a Low Carbon Pledge are well progressed in terms of setting science-based targets by 2024. Many of Ireland’s largest businesses are “on track” when it comes to setting science-based emissions reduction targets. That’s according to a new report from PwC, which measured progress on the Low Carbon Pledge developed by non-profit nati...

Representatives of the ICMSA met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin today to discuss government policy on farming and agriculture.

HSE chief says number in hospital with disease at 80 having been 2,000 just months ago

Facilities to go in areas with high footfall after controversy over large gatherings and littering in city

Councils get €4m to fund facilities for public gatherings including toilets and bins

Fracking not compatible with human rights law, says Irish study Journal.ie 2 hrs ago © Niall Sargent Protest against fracked gas imports outside the Department of Climate in 2019 THE EXTRACTION OF gas through fracking goes against international human rights law, according to a new study by Irish researchers. Fracking is a process for extracting gas by drilling into shale rock and injecting pressurised water, sand and various chemicals to force out the gas. The report, prepared by human rig...

Government Support for Move on Fracked Gas Likely to Scupper Shannon Estuary Terminal Plan 19th May 2021 Government has announced a new policy statement that will prevent Ireland from importing fracked gas, that is likely to scupper the Shannon Estuary terminal plan. Credit: The Irish Times -facebook A new policy statement from the Government will prevent Ireland from importing fracked gas, which is likely to scupper moves to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Shannon estuary...

OECD Environmental Performance Review of Ireland - 10:30 Dublin time on Monday 10 May 2021   05/05/2021 - Ireland’s efforts to delink its economy from environmental pressures have been challenged by strong economic growth in recent years that has driven up greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation and nutrient pollution. Intensive farming, population growth, urban sprawl and road traffic are also having an impact on the environment. At the same time, policies to curb climate change, protect...

SHARING OPTIONS: A rewetted bog near Mountbellew, Co Galway. Bord na Móna plans to rewet 30,000ha of peatlands in the coming years. The Government has been called on to give legally binding assurances that compensation will be made available to landowners beside rewetted bogs in the event they are adversely affected by the process. Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan said Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan needed to make funding allocated to c...

IFA deputy president Brian Rushe. IFA deputy president Brian Rushe has called for a more balanced debate on media and political platforms when it comes to representing and debating farmer views on the climate bill. “I don’t want to name political groupings, but I’m worried that farmers are presented at times in this debate as unwilling to change or rise to the challenge,” Rushe told the Irish Farmers Journal. Minister for Climate and Environment Eamon Ryan was met with heckling and je...