Holly Cairns

To vote for the Council position and ensure necessary progress is made to improving air quality in Ireland and throughout Europe.

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 get the use of Glypohsate banned in Ireland and to get DPOs to agree to get tested for glyphosate

agreement to get tested for glyphosate

Ensure the recommendations set out by the Citizens' Assembly shape future legislation and policy to protect nature

That they use their influence to, before the July HLPF in NY and in the months after, ensure that the government feels compelled to take action to bridge the growing gap between Irish efforts on the international stage, and our commitment to the Goals at a national level.::That…

Stronger SDG leadership::Better data collection and disaggregation for the SDGs::Future Generations Commissioner established::Budgeting for the SDGs::Policy coherence

That the SDGs would frame their Party's manifestos

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…