Stephen Cadogan: Invitation to share costs of producing sustainable food

SUCCESSIVE generations of Irish farmers have sought to produce food sustainably, aware that cutting transport costs is good for the environment and farm profitability.

As the dust settles on COP21, the global charter to tackle climate change, serious thought is being focused on what the Paris agreement will mean for the food industry.

In all, 196 countries pledged to keep a global temperature rise, this century, under 2°C above pre-industrial levels — the threshold scientists predict will result in irreversible warming and planetary change; and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.