Climate Change: Farmers urged to plant forests

The country’s farmers are being urged to go green and plant forestry to avoid Ireland being slapped with billions of euros in fines for the carbon footprint from our millions of burping cows.

Ireland is one of the few countries on the planet where cows outnumber people, which accounts for surprisingly high greenhouse gas emissions.

RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground programme has revealed how agriculture now accounts for over one third of greenhouse gases emissions.