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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)
...climate. As even science shows, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC is telling us, we need nature restoration for the sake of climate. The World Economic Forum is telling us repeatedly that one of the top global risks for the economy is biodiversity loss. From the European Green Deal, a biodiversity strategy for 2030 was derived. In this view, we need to provide...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)
Dr. Humberto Delgado Rosa: I will reply to the questions as well as I can and I will start by discussing peatland where in the sense that Ireland certainly has much peatland, including in agricultural use. It is not really a single case in that other member states, such as the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Poland and others also have quite a proportion. I will discuss here what this means...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)
...states in the nature restoration plans that must be done in full consultation with stakeholders. Let me address the farmers. What would I say to a farmer who has all of his land in drained peatland? The first thing I would say is that it depends on the decision of the member state that he can fully maintain, as is, his own activity. That specific farm does not need to be put under...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)
Joe Flaherty: ...binding. At the same time, as many members have told the director, this has caused a large amount of disquiet and anxiety. I am conscious of time and I wish to home in on the section on drained peatland under agricultural use, because that primarily affects me. I come from Longford, where we have paid a massive price for just transition. We have seen the escalation and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)
...competence. To go directly to the socioeconomic implications, if I am not wrong it is the Irish Climate Action Plan 2021 that aims at a target of 24%, if my figures are correct, of drained peatland under agricultural use to be rewetted for climate purposes. The draft plan for 2026 goes in the same direction, and the Ag Climatise roadmap refers, if my figures are not wrong, to something...