OUR Environment Minister John Gormley yesterday launched a website to help us reduce our carbon emissions. The site is to encourage all of us to commit to a 10% cut in carbon emissions by next year.

THE recent report on the World Energy Outlook for 2009 from the OECD’s International Energy Agency highlighted the need for greater energy efficiency and “green growth” – including nuclear as well as renewable energy.

A NEED to link afforestation incentives to climate change targets in order to attract land owners and financial investors was highlighted at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security.