Is climate change to blame?
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Ireland s emissions matter, but so do the methods of accounting 25 June 2021 Free
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Conor Mulvihill
Climate/environment is the key challenge for Irish dairy for the next decade and beyond dwarfing the challenge of other macro issues like Brexit and Covid-19.
The only solution for us to surmount these challenges is to adopt a ‘whole-of-Government’ and ‘whole-of-sector’ agreed approach.
While a lot of brilliant work is going on, there are far too many silos that are not communicating with each other.
But the road ahead is not only a challenge it also presents opportunities and this needs to be underlined.
We must remember that Irish dairy, and agriculture in general, is coming off a very high base. We have excellent EU leading metrics on the likes of air quality, water quality and carbon per unit of output.