Methane reduction progress 'challenging, but expected to accelerate' in coming years
Frank Mitloehner, a professor and air quality specialist in cooperative extension in the Department of Animal Science at UC Davis, has described methane as being the “fast and furious GHG". Picture: UC Davis
Progress on reducing methane emissions from agriculture is “challenging, but expected to accelerate” as feed additives become commercially available in future years, Bill Callanan, chief inspector at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has said.
Speaking at an Oireachtas environment and climate action committee meeting, he said that the 51% reduction target in greenhouse gas emissions on an economy-wide basis by 2030 is “extremely ambitious”, and the agriculture and land-use sectors “will be required to play their part in meeting Ireland’s climate ambition”.
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