Meeting carbon targets will be 'challenging' but essential to reduce emissions

Heather Humphries said meeting the ambitious targets is the responsibility of all sectors of society. File picture: Sasko Lazarov

Meeting the ambitious targets due be set out in our carbon budgets will be "challenging" but is the responsibility of all sectors of society, the social protection minister has said.

The Government is looking at plans that would impose emissions cuts of up to 80% on the electricity sector and reductions of at least 21% on agriculture over the next decade.