From Irish banks exposed to bad loans and the slow process to redirect resources, Kyran Fitzgerald writes on the climate challenges identified by a fascinating conference

IFA has warned that proposals to reduce methane emissions from agriculture will cut farm output and will cost jobs.

The Climate Change Advisory Council’s advice to the Government to treat methane differently from other greenhouse gases has been opposed by Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.

Eoin Lettice and Barbara Doyle Prestwich say an integrated approach to sustainable food production is needed in Ireland

After a day of heightened tensions and rhetoric between Downing St and the EU, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar warned last night a deal is not likely.

JAMES Lovelock, one of the great thinkers, scientists, and environmentalists, will be 100 today.

Dublin City Council is to receive €8m under the plan, Limerick City and County Council will get €2.7m, while Cork City Council will get €1.2m.

A continued reduction of the suckler herd would make an important and cost-effective contribution to greenhouse gas mitigation in the agricultural sector, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council’s annual review.

Ireland remains "completely off course" to achieve its 2020 and 2030 climate change targets, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Further significant rises will be necessary over the coming decade to tackle climate change linked to carbon dioxide, an advisory panel added.

Ireland is the second country in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’, but the Government must face up to promoting potentially unpopular hikes in carbon taxes, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

We are one of the only EU countries in which greenhouse gases are rising and we are likely to miss our 2020 targets, writes Cara Augustenborg.

Earlier this year New Zealand decided not to allow any new offshore oil exploration.

A consumer body representing motorists has criticised the carbon tax as a “pure revenue-raising” measure, while a fuel industry body has claimed raising carbon taxes further would have “unintended consequences” for the economy.

The Climate Change Advisory Council will spend the next six months considering the economic effects on agriculture of measures needed to move the sector onto a sustainable path of dealing with climate change challenges.

Part two of our look at the implications for rural life and for farming of the likely measures to reduce greenhouse gases

A heated meeting of residents in Skibbereen on July 19 reflected their anxieties about the hazards they fear if a plastics factory manufacturing ‘nurdles’ — polymer pellets — is built in the town.

The country is “completely off course” in its efforts to meet climate change goals, and the gulf between these targets and Ireland’s carbon emissions is growing year on year, according to a scathing report by the State’s climate change watchdog.

Our cherished identity is blown to the four winds if we remain wedded to the fossil fuel industry, writes Victoria White.

Our cherished identity is blown to the four winds if we remain wedded to the fossil fuel industry, writes Victoria White.

Ireland is set to travel a bumpy — and very expensive — road in the journey to meet its clean energy and carbon emission reduction targets, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Rose Martin reports on the smoky coal ban and Dermot Bannon’s new TV show.

Raising taxes on petrol, diesel, and home-heating fuels, plus a complete ban on the burning of coal and peat, are urgently needed to help cut carbon emissions, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Farmers should be taxed on greenhouse gas emissions and all state subsidies for peat extraction should end, the Citizens’ Assembly will tell the Government as part of its final report on tackling climate change.