An recent EPA report features a number of models of how land use will have to change in Ireland for us to reach our 2050 Paris agreement targets. One of the report’s authors, Dr James Moran, Senior Lecturer at Atlantic Technical University (ATU) said the report was a review of the available scientific information to support evidence- based decision making.
The report is a scenario modelling exercise that suggests that Ireland will need to reduce its livestock numbers by 30%, quadruple its forestry targets and re-wet 90% of reclaimed land to meet 2050 climate targets.
Is the mandatory requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Irish agriculture an opportunity to explore new methods of meat production?
A common reaction to the idea of meat being grown in a lab instead coming directly from a cow or a pig or sheep is another example of ‘science gone mad.’ But lab-grown meat has the potential to offer an alternative to meat production that would drastically reduce the climate, environmental and animal cruelty impacts that result from intensive farming.
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