Agricultural emissions could be cut by 6% through on-farm efficiencies

Edit The Irish Times 09 Nov 2015
Greenhouse gas emissions from Irish agriculture could be reduced by 6 per cent if under-performing beef and dairy farms were brought back in line with the national average, according to Bord Bia ... Tom Arnold, director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), said the Bord Bia report identified significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from beef farming through greater on-farm efficiencies ... ....

CO2 emissions could be cut by 6% through on-farm efficiencies

Edit The Irish Times 09 Nov 2015
Greenhouse gas emissions from Irish agriculture could be reduced by 6 per cent if under-performing beef and dairy farms were brought back in line with the national average, according to Bord Bia ... Tom Arnold, director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), said the Bord Bia report identified significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from beef farming through greater on-farm efficiencies ... ....

Irish think-tanks don’t think any more

Edit The Irish Times 02 Nov 2015
One of the consequences of being a small country is that in many areas we have the same fixed running costs as a large one. Having a National Opera House or a National Football Stadium costs the same if you are Germany or Andorra ... These research centres – ESRI, IIEA, Geary, Nevin, Tasc – tend to focus on optimising the existing management of the State, tinkering here and there ... It’s easy to understand why this is the case ... ....

Paul Gillespie: Ireland must not let Brexit affect position in EU

Edit The Irish Times 24 Oct 2015
Ireland is learning how to live with the uncertainty and instability of a changing United Kingdom as that state decides whether to remain a member of the European Union ... Canadian election ... Cost-benefit basis. It would be a grudging, surly and appallingly bad-tempered victory, according to Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe project at London University, who was speaking in Dublin this week (see iiea.com) ... Concessions....

Ireland’s approach to farming emissions wins praise from World Bank

Edit The Irish Times 14 Oct 2015
Ireland’s approach to reducing agricultural emissions has won praise from one of the most influential voices in the climate change debate ... He said ... Joseph Curtain of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) told The Irish Times that while elements of Ireland’s dairy and beef sector were efficient “a very significant proportion” of suckler cow beef farming here was economically and environmentally “sub-optimal” ... ....

Army aims to keep pace with new technology

Edit The Irish Times 10 Oct 2015
Conor Lally Security and Crime Editor ... Vice Admiral Mellett told the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) the Defence Forces was currently helping to develop kite-flying technology that would produce wind-generated power and become a “game changer” for long-range communications and surveillance. The large-scale kites could be flown off ships, and generate the power needed to operate the vessels, or over land, he said....

Official ‘greenspeak’ masks poor show on environment

Edit The Irish Times 29 Sep 2015
Climate change is a serious threat,” former president Mary Robinson told a meeting at the Irish Institute of European Affairs (IIEA) last February ... One place where the issues of agriculture and climate change are on the table is the IIEA/RDS Leadership Forum on Climate Smart Agriculture, an initiative championed by the IIEA’s director general Tom Arnold, who also sits on the board of Mary Robinson’s Foundation for Climate Justice....

Third of Irish households could generate own electricity within 10 years

Edit The Irish Times 19 Sep 2015
One third of Irish households will be generating their own electricity within 10 years, the ESB’s chief executive has predicted ... He was speaking at a Dublin conference on the future of energy, hosted by the ESB and the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) ... Concerns had been raised that rising energy demand, linked to economic recovery, would see the State undershoot its targets ... ....

ECB president agrees to appear before MEPs over Irish bailout

Edit The Irish Times 10 Sep 2015
Last week, the ECB informed the committee of the banking inquiry that it would not participate in the inquiry which closes today in Dublin ... But the ECB withdrew that offer. It argued that the “clear separation” between an exchange of views and the inquiry “could not be guaranteed,” citing comments made by committee chairman Ciaran Lynch at the appearance of former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet at the IIEA ... “Mr ... ....

Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund holds €70m shares in fossil fuel

Edit The Irish Times 13 Aug 2015
The audit of its holdings was conducted by Joseph Curtin, climate expert with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and University College Cork (UCC), and Paul Deane from UCC’s Environmental Research Institute ... Low carbon economy. In their analysis, published on the IIEA’s website, the authors question whether these holdings are consistent with the Government’s aim of moving Ireland to a low carbon economy by 2050....

Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund holds shares in polluting firms

Edit The Irish Times 13 Aug 2015
The audit of the fund’s holdings was conducted by Joseph Curtin, climate expert with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and University College Cork (UCC), and Paul Deane from UCC’s Environmental Research Institute ... In their analysis, published on the IIEA’s website, the authors question whether these holdings are consistent with the Government’s aim of moving Ireland to a low carbon economy by 2050.   ... ....

State wealth fund holds shares in biggest polluting firms

Edit The Irish Times 13 Aug 2015
The audit of the fund’s holdings was conducted by Joseph Curtin, climate expert with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and University College Cork (UCC), and Paul Deane from UCC’s Environmental Research Institute ... In their analysis, published on the IIEA’s website, the authors question whether these holdings are consistent with the Government’s aim of moving Ireland to a low carbon economy by 2050.   ... ....
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