Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Your editorial (December 29) on the Paris conference on global warming focused on the narrow aspect of what you call “the disproportionately powerful farm lobby”.

There is more to this issue and many more people will be affected by adjustments made to lower greenhouse gas emissions from Irish agriculture than just the farming population.

A spokesperson for An Taisce says that just one of the decisions that has to be made to meet targets is that Ireland shuts down its beef production and converts the land to forestry.