Dara Calleary

The aim of the weekend is to showcase the great climate positive work taking place in Ballina and engage a wider audience in these initiatives to build awareness, scale and momentum in Ballina’s bid to become Ireland’s Greenest Town. Key priorities for this year’s programme…

That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration

To promote the use of Natural Capital concepts and accounting methodologies in government policy across departments and to bring the aforementioned laws, reports, events, budget submissions and projects to the attention of various ministers. To promote Business for Biodiversity…

To highlight the impact of the proposed Nature Restoration Law by the European Union, which will enact legally binding targets on Ireland, up until the year 2050, across a broad range of ecosystems, from agricultural land and forests, to rivers and marine habitats, to meet our…

To ensure that, as set out in Food Vision 2030, there must be a balance between environmental, economic and social sustainability.::To ensure that rigorous assessments of all EU and national policy proposals are required to understand their impact on farm viability, the rural…

To insist that there must be an accurate measurement of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon removals at farm levels. It was accepted at the IFA Climate Summit that research is ongoing to facilitate more accurate estimates of emissions from Irish agriculture and land use. In the…

To ensure that the Government takes account of the potential for carbon leakage to arise from climate policies in Ireland. This is a requirement of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.Carbon leakage occurs when food production is curtailed in one…

To emphasise that new funding is required to support farmers and the wider agricultural sector to achieve our environmental objectives. This must include renewable energy as well as research funding to maximise the potential for technology-based solutions to help agriculture to…

To highlight that our grass-based livestock and arable land systems are among the world's most climate-efficient food production systems. Farmers will work to reduce emissions by adopting measures in the Teagasc Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) and other reasonable policy…

That policy measures around land use change including the forestry programme, biodiversity proposals and rewetting must all be agreed with farmers.::To highlight that IFA will not agree with land being designated or re-wetted without prior agreement with farmers and full…

That Irish elected representatives support the reform of the legal mandates of Coillte, Bord Na Móna and other public bodies

Raise concerns about the capacity of the state to deliver the Climate Action Plan projects on time.

Highlight the need for a strong NPWS which has the capacity to make strong recommendations independent of its department, and for it to be able to recruit technically competent individual to decision making multi-disciplinary teams

Express our network's position on the need for sustained action to prevent climate change

To highlight that the reduction in the nitrates derogation to 220kg N/ha would have a significant economic impact and could potentially remove €236 million from the rural economy.::To point out that IFA estimate that the profit reduction on impacted farms will be between €6,522…