ICMSA says EU's environmental strategy will see production move in ‘carbon leakage’

‘No foodstuffs should be imported where lower environmental standards are utilised' 

ICMSA President, Pat McCormack, on his Tipperary farm. File Picture. 

A new study by the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has shown that the objectives set out in the EU’s Farm to Fork (F2F) and Biodiversity strategies will deliver significant reductions in emissions and have measurable environmental benefits.

But the study has also found that these reductions are likely to drastically reduce as food production switches to countries with lower - or no - comparable standards in what is known as ‘carbon leakage’.