Climate change proposals - Why pay to stop farm pollution?

The reaction to the weekend recommendations on the delivery of climate change policy — or the lack of it — from the Citizens’ Assembly was a mix of dismay and derision.

Many people were dismayed that we still have so much ground to make up after a decade or more of promises to end unsustainable behaviour.

Others reacted with derision which might be better seen as fear because some of our everyday practices are so damaging that unless we end them we will be — properly — regarded as a rogue nation on climate change.