How big a challenge is carbon neutrality?

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Climate action in your fridge: packaging contributes about 5.4% of global food emissions, refrigeration about 5%. Food system emissions increased 12.5% from 1990 to 2015, while global food production increased more than 40%.

The government has set a long-term challenge for the Irish agriculture sector to achieve carbon neutrality, while not compromising our capacity for sustainable food production.

We are still learning just how big a challenge that is.