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Changes to how Greenhouse Gas emissions will be measured mean Northern Ireland will achieve a larger contribution to the UK’s climate target with…
Compromise could be on the cards as the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs’ (DAERA) Climate Change Bill has passed its second stage…
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots is hoping a briefing from one of the UK’s most senior advisors on climate matters will influence Stormont colleagues…
Stormont politicians are expected to debate Northern Ireland’s second proposed Climate Change Bill for the first time next week. “The department has now…
Protesters at Stormont have warned if Northern Ireland’s political institutions fail, so will a controversial bill setting a net-zero target for Northern Ireland…
Agricultural leaders have stood by their stark warnings about Northern Ireland’s Climate Change Bill after an independent report has found the bill’s net-zero…
Aiming for net-zero by 2045 could result in the loss of 13,000 farming jobs in Northern Ireland at a cost of £11 billion,…
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has slammed targets set in the private member’s Climate Change Bill as “complete nonsense”. Speaking during…
The first details have emerged of Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture’s Climate Change Bill. Referred to in Stormont documents as “Climate Change (No.…
Northern Ireland’s second Climate Change Bill has officially passed its First Stage at Stormont. The bill has been drafted by the Department of…
Northern Ireland’s agricultural industry has commissioned an impact assessment report to evaluate how ambitions for Northern Ireland to achieve net-zero by 2045 will…
Northern Ireland’s dairy industry would have to be slashed back to production levels last seen in 1946 in order to achieve net-zero ambitions.…
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Climate Change Bill has passed through the Executive today. It’s a separate entity from…
Scientists have warned it will be “extremely challenging” for Northern Ireland to reduce its methane emissions from agriculture in order to meet net-zero…
The chairman of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has told Northern Ireland politicians he is “not prepared” to tell the region to…
There are to be no ‘special arrangements’ made for agriculture in either of the two Climate Change Bills currently going through Stormont, the…
Ambitions to upgrade Northern Ireland’s recommended 82% reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero will cost an additional £900 million a year…
There has been a lot of talk about Northern Ireland’s proposed new Climate Change Bill as it begins its passage through Stormont. Agriland…
