Greenhouse gas cuts will impact on everything from homes to transport

Further big cuts to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in the EU promise to affect every aspect of people’s lives, from their homes, to transport, to work and food.

Desperate efforts will continue right up to today’s EU summit to try to agree an ambitious range of new targets to fight climate change, but several countries were threatening to block.

Ireland is one of the few countries that has succeeded in getting what it needs to reduce the impact of huge amounts of methane produced by the country’s 8 million cows.