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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, water holding capacity, and productivity. The recent addition of both national and EU greenhouse gas ...

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. Gerry Boyle outlined the challenges that the sector faces. Highlighting work conducted in relation to ...

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 contends that An Bord Pleanála “disregarded” issues raised in its appeal against the decision of...

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 lawsuit accused the French government of having fallen short of its obligations to decrease greenhou...