The Climate Change Advisory Council has published its Carbon Budget.
The Junior Agriculture Minister, a Kildare TD, says farmers need to be seen as part of the solution and not the problem to climate change.
Ireland is aiming to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by half over the next ten years, under ambitious new plans by the Climate Change Advisory Council.
The decrease would involve a reduction in farming livestock as beef and dairy cattle are among the biggest contributors to emissions.
Junior Agriculture Minister & Kildare South Fine Gael TD, Martin Heydon, thinks there are other ways and farmers need to stop being singled out
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