Sustainable food is key to protecting the environment

The international climate agreement concluded at COP21 in Paris was an important compass which aims to guide global temperature increases to ‘well below’ 2C and to focus all parties to the agreement to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C.

Significantly for Irish agriculture, Article 2 of the agreement emphasises the principle that food production must not be threatened by climate mitigation measures.

Ireland is a world leader in sustainable food production and this is independently verified by Carbon Trust UK, Bord Bia and Teagasc.