N.Ireland
Aontú candidate for East Derry, Gemma Brolly, has called for a commitment from Stormont to support and fully engage with the...
Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Edwin Poots, has welcomed Northern...
Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Edwin Poots has welcomed...
Next Monday (February 28), will see Sinn Féin bring forward an amendment at Stormont to the Northern Ireland Climate Change Bill.
Amendments to NI's Climate Change Bill will be debated in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday, February 28.
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said that climate change legislation for Northern Ireland...
Northern Ireland’s two largest farm organisations have joined forces to host on-farm meetings for politicians to discuss the Climate Change Bill.
Environment
Changes to how Greenhouse Gas emissions will be measured mean Northern Ireland will achieve a larger contribution to the UK's climate target with the same amount of effort.
Compromise could be on the cards as the DAERA Climate Change Bill has passed its second stage at Stormont.
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots is hoping a briefing from one of the UK's most senior advisors on climate matters will influence Stormont colleagues to back his climate bill which aims for carbon targets.
Stormont politicians are expected to debate Northern Ireland's second proposed Climate Change Bill for the first time next week.
Protesters at Stormont have warned if Northern Ireland's political institutions fail, so will a controversial bill setting a net-zero target for Northern Ireland by 2045.
Agri-Business
Agricultural leaders have stood by their stark warnings about Northern Ireland's Climate Bill after an independent report has found the..
Aiming for net-zero by 2045 could result in the loss of 13,000 farming jobs in Northern Ireland at a cost of £11 billion, an independent report has warned.
Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) president Victor Chestnutt has slammed targets set in the private member's Climate Change Bill as "complete nonsense".
The first details have emerged of Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture's Climate Change Bill. Referred to in Stormont documents as "Climate Change..
Northern Ireland's second Climate Change Bill has officially passed its First Stage at Stormont.The bill has been drafted by the Department of Agriculture..
Northern Ireland's agricultural industry has commissioned an impact assessment report to evaluate how ambitions for NI to achieve net-zero by 2045 will affect farming.
Northern Ireland's dairy industry would have to be slashed back to production levels last seen in 1946 in order to achieve net-zero ambitions.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Climate Change Bill has passed through the Executive today.
Scientists have warned it will be "extremely challenging" for Northern Ireland to reduce its methane emissions from agriculture in order to meet net-zero ambitions without a reduction in livestock numbers.
The chairman of the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) has told Northern Ireland politicians he is "not prepared" to tell the region to do things that, "we know, they cannot do".
There are to be no 'special arrangements' made for agriculture in either of the two Climate Change Bills currently going through Stormont.
