John Gibbons: Are the Government's compromise emissions targets even achievable? 

Plans are all well and good but delivering the promised reductions look difficult to achieve from this vantage point

The proposed plan is a target for agriculture to reduce emissions by 25%.

It is said that if you’ve managed to annoy and infuriate all sides, then clearly you are doing something right. This being the case, the government should be fairly happy with the compromise on sectoral emissions budgets it has cobbled together after weeks and months of wrangling and arm-twisting.

The headline-grabbing number is of course the 25% emissions cut agreed for agriculture, the sector contributing by far the largest single share of the national carbon pollution pie, at over one third of all emissions.