Light bulb ban among bright ideas to cut CO2

THE Government is considering banning incandescent light bulbs as one of a number of ways to fight climate change.

Ireland will have to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the years ahead, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern admitted after signing up to a major energy initiative in Brussels.

EU leaders agreed a ground-breaking overhaul of energy use and CO2 emissions and will now try to get other countries to agree to it at the G8 summit in June.