Implementing bioeconomy principles a 'win-win' for agriculture 

ICOS is to establish a "co-operative framework" for Irish co-ops to share information and best practice on the bioeconomy.

EPA director general Laura Burke; Minister of State Martin Heydon; Gas Networks Ireland biomethane programme manager Padraig Fleming; ICOS president James O’Donnell, at the ICOS bioeconomy workshop at The Heritage, Killenard, Co Laois. Picture: Alf Harvey.

ICOS is to establish a "co-operative framework" for Irish co-ops to share information and best practice on sustainability and the bioeconomy.

The announcement comes as members of industry gather on Friday at a national bioeconomy workshop organised by ICOS in Co Laois.