Climate Action Plan: A step away from cows 

The plan will support diversification options for livestock farmers, which the Government report admits will “incentivise voluntary livestock reductions”.
The plan will support diversification options for livestock farmers, which the Government report admits will “incentivise voluntary livestock reductions”.

The plan will support diversification options for livestock farmers, which the Government report admits will “incentivise voluntary livestock reductions”.

As if we hadn’t all heard enough about emissions targets and cow burps for one year, the Climate Action Plan (the other CAP) published on Wednesday evening made for some interesting – if not startling - late-night reading.

For those who have missed the memo, the plan is the first of Ireland’s annual reviews to meet its targets to halve Irish emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero no later than 2050.

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