Action needed to meet 2020 greenhouse gas targets

IRELAND needs to take serious action – in addition to those already planned – if it is to meet its 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The EPA also warned that we will have to develop a range of carbon sinks – natural or artificial reservoirs that accumulate and store carbon-containing chemical compounds – including increasing the amount of land we have under forest.

It reminded Government that a fifth of the reduction in GHG emissions expected by them by 2015 are coming from policies and measures that still haven’t been devised.