€10 million in EU funds for big midlands peat bog project
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Micheal D Higgins on a visit to Abbeyleix Bog which was saved and rehabilitated by a community project in Laois );
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The European Commission is to fund €10million towards a project which it is claimed will have a big peatlands rehabilitation element.
Bord na Móna, which is coordinating the project, said the Peatlands and People project is a major national initiative that has won funding support from the European Commission which will contribute to the long term implementation of Ireland’s Climate Action Plan. The company says it will engage people in Ireland and across the European Union with the benefits of peatlands restoration, in particular, to realise the power of peatlands in climate action.
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Will it be a long slow recovery or a rapid bounce back to the economy we had in February 2020?
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By April 2020, UK GDP had fallen 25% in two months.
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The good news, however, is the pace of recovery and most economists predict it will be rapid.
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Some €10m in EU funding has been allocated to Ireland for a
Peatlands and People project which will see a peatlands centre of excellence established.
The project is to contribute to the long-term implementation of Ireland’s Climate Action Plan.
Co-ordinated by Bord na Móna, together with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, National University of Ireland Galway and ERINN Innovation Ltd, with additional co-financing from Department of Agriculture, the project will work with peatlands across Ireland’s midlands and the communities around them to deliver capacity and support related to a low-carbon economy.
The project will establish three things: