Unprecedented changes needed to meet climate targets, EPA warns

The impact of Covid-19 in 2020 saw transport emissions decline but agriculture emissions largely unaffected, the report said.

Ireland has fallen far short of its 2020 emissions reduction aims, but can claw it back to reach EU targets in the next nine years through an "unprecedented" ramping up of national efforts.

That is according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which said that a 51% emissions reduction by 2030 meant "significant new measures will need to be identified and implemented across all sectors".