Coveney wants review on how agri carbon emissions are assessed

Europe needs to review how agriculture’s carbon emissions are assessed, or risk seeing food production move to less eco-efficient countries like Brazil, Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has warned.

His comments follow an ESRI report which said: “If climate policies curtail Irish milk and beef production, production will move overseas to places like Brazil, without any global environmental benefit.

“Preserving emissions- efficient production within Europe would be preferable.”