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May 20, 2021, 5:33 pm
Why is An Taisce and the Environmental Pillar (EP) solely focused on the suppression of Irish agricultural production, and thus against the Paris Accord on climate action?
There have been a number of clarifications of the broad spectrum challenge of what climate action represents, both locally for Ireland and globally, as against the narrow focus of the anti-agriculture bias of mainstream media, and the Environmental Pillar in recent weeks.
Carbon credits
Former agriculture minister Michael Creed, in a recent Dáil debate on the Climate Action Bill, made the very salient point that, in essence, the Irish economy “has no historical industrial heritage” and thus Irish agriculture sits in a national accounting system which has no carbon credits.