Ireland's Bioeconomy: now less principled! now with biomethane! In October, at the major Global Bioeconomy Summit 2026 in Dublin the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon and Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, Darragh O’Brien launched Ireland’s 2026 National Bioeconomy Strategy, lets call it the 2026NBS. This major update to Irish bioeconomy policy
When the facts are a problem intensive livestock defenders don't want you to know them Abundant research and reporting has documented how the fossil fuel industry was extremely well informed about the large global heating impact of its oil, coal and gas production—most notably, through its early own scientific research. Despite having "excellent scientists" to provide this deep understanding, the fossil fuel
Ireland's sectoral emissions mitigation achievement for 2021–2025 is much worse than the EPA report has stated Paul Price 21 August 2026 In the previous post, I set out some necessary caveats to the EPA's summary statement on national mitigation achievement over the first carbon budget period (CB1 2021–2025) that were not made sufficiently clear in its recent report, Ireland’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas
Did Ireland meet Carbon Budget 1? Some key caveats and why CB2 is the real policy test In July EPA issued its report on Ireland’s Provisional Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990-2025, stating that the first statutory five-year carbon budget (CB1) of 295 MtCO2e, covering 2021–2025 had been met: "Provisional emission estimates for the years 2021 to 2024, in addition to national total emissions
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