There will not be any cull of the (cattle) herd but a stabilisation of the herd, the Tánaiste has said. He said the methane emissions reduction target in the Climate Action Plan will be 10%. Leo Varadkar said Ireland without beef and dairy farms would not be Ireland.
— Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) November 2, 2021
This afternoon.
Glasgow, Scotland.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is currently addressing the COP26 summit on Climate Change.
He said:
“We have enacted legislation to put a legally binding target of reducing our emissions by 2030 to 51% below 2018 levels. We will reach climate neutrality by 2050.
“We are working closely with our EU partners in the green transition that will make Europe the first climate-neutral continent.
“We are implementing a statutory system of carbon budgeting and emissions ceilings for each sector of the economy.”
More as we get it.
Micheal Martin Addresses COP26 (RTÈ)
Ireland without massive data centres would not be Ireland.
If we could power them from cow farts would be net zero
Oddly, not as silly as it sounds
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/anaerobic-digestion-pilot-project-part-of-national-development-plan-651995
some sort of parpetual energy machine
..and a tasty one to boot!
I see what you did there.
Tomorrow’s headline:
COP-out as Ireland avoids herd reduction.
The last time Ireland was at 50% of 2018’s per capita co2 emissions was 1960…
The idea we can reduce them by 8% a year, as is planned, is patently nonsense. Our co2 emissions actually increased this year.
The public is mostly in favour of green measures when its theoretical, or just marginal measures – more solar panels, grants for electric cars etc. But to achieve a 50% reduction in the next 8 years would require drastic, hugely cost of living inflating measures. There’ll be a huge electoral backlash against any party attempting to implement them.
No, I dont think so. Some electoral backlash from reactionary sectors economically invested in destructive practices, often heavily subsidised and incentivised pracitces. Lots of misinformation and disinformation and griping and moaning but they’re in the same class as the landlord class whose interests are protected by governments at the cost of homelessness and insane rent and house proces. So they have disproportionate power and they’ve captured reglatioan and government funding to a degree. But these policies are popular in the same way Repeal the 8th was popular – nobody really believed it or wanted to acknowledge it until it happened.
34% of our emissions are from agriculture. Our government is already on the record saying the national herd won’t be reduced. Given that, how do you see that sector’s emissions halving in the next 8 years?
20% of our emissions are from transport. The average age of a car in Ireland is 8.7 years, so it would take 100% of new car sales being electric already to see our fleet being mostly electric by 2030. Instead electric will be only approx 7% of new car sales this year. How is the Irish government going to completely overhaul the make-up of the Irish transportation system in 8 years?
There aren’t going to be easy answers here. And god knows Irish politicians are terrified of doing anything that isn’t completely populist.
There are, in fact easy – and by easy I don’t mean they aren’t a lot of work, just thet they’re blazingly obvious – answers, what we have is a government that doesn’t want to implement them. You overhaul the subsidy system to diversify agriculture, protect and promote biodiversity and food security and you end all sitka plantations. You don’t spend a single cent on building new roads, you invest in public transport – electric, naturally – and cycling infrastructure and make cities car free. You overhaul the planning system so that it’s not developer-led and captured by people trying to maximise land values at the cost of proper development of town and urban living spaces. You pay a million or so people to put up their own little windmills and and solar panels and plug them into the national grid – ie, the opposite of the Irish Water fiasco. Tax the hell out of any commercial agency that produces or imports plastic waste as packaging. I could go on.
Oh yeah, bring back wolves.
Bring back wolves? Having the likes of you howling at the moon is enough that this fair isle can take. I’d possibly be up for some kind of swap though.
Awoooooo werewolves of Dublin.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/contact/
Awoooooooo.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/contact/
werewolves of Dublin
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks
For to get a big dish of beef chow mein
Stoking London’s inner Shelley.
“You overhaul the subsidy system to diversify agriculture” — the government is already on the record saying the national herd won’t be reduced in size. So diversification is already out the window.
” You don’t spend a single cent on building new roads, you invest in public transport – electric, naturally – and cycling infrastructure and make cities car free.” — there are 2.2 million petrol and diesel cars on Irish roads. And thats increasing every year, as our population increases. Investing in public transport won’t remove 1.1 million of them by 2030.
There also isn’t a car free city on planet earth, so that seems a highly unlikely innovation to be taken on successfully by Ireland within the next 8 years.
“easy” indeed.
Yeah, more like ‘obvious’ and ‘should have started doing them twenty years ago.’
Ursula’s been a naughty naughty girl…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-air-miles-ursula-used-private-jet-travel-just-31-miles/
lol
nothing quite like taking lectures from the elite, wha
Man who boasts about wife ignoring COVID public safety measures calls into question the moral fortitude of others
There’s nothing immoral about ignoring unjust legislation.
“ One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”
MLK
He’d be turning in his grave at the thought of alt-right truthers (that’s you) hijacking his words for their regressive causes.
This is Ireland, stop with your importing culture war nonsense.
You’re right, Chris. Thankfully here in Ireland you truthers are a very teeny tiny minority. So it’s not a culture war here, just a mild irritant to an otherwise reasonably functioning society.
‘Truthers’ – clearly a mind poisoned by foreign media. And you have never uttered anything that could be considered ‘reasonable’. Don’t kid yourself.
“ a very teeny tiny minority.”
350+ thousand of us I believe…
They really should stop telling us how many of us there are
Rejecting such restrictions and refusing to comply is the moral stance. Micko should be proud. She’s a keeper. You are mistaking majority herd opinion for the morally correct choice. It rarely ever is in such times.
+1
23 years together Matty.
She’s the best ;)
ooh teenage sweetheart :)
She’s clearly very tolerant
Majority herd opinion?
I’d say you’re great in bed also.
Well, it is the opinion of the majority of the herd.
Good on you, E’Matty.
But not as good as you, clearly?
Clearly.
Yeah, absolutely NO interest in implementing actual policies that would threaten the flow of subsidies and government incentives to existing destructive industries and practices.