Clare’s Green Party Senator insists bigger farmers must make a greater contribution to reducing carbon emissions than those with smaller operations.
It comes after the publication of Ireland’s first carbon budgets, with sectoral targets to be finalised in the coming weeks.
The first five-year budget will require cuts of 4.8 percent a year compared with emissions in 2018, with a yearly reduction of 8.4 percent planned after 2025.
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Inagh-based Green Senator Roisin Garvey believes small farmers should not have to cut back in the same way as those with bigger herds.
