L’Irlanda è la seconda più alta nell’UE per emissioni di gas serra pro capite
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/03/ireland-second-highest-in-eu-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-per-person
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20 commenti
Lads stop making tea ffs
It’s all the gas from the cows and 90% of Irish milk supplies are destined for export markets. We need to diversity of farming in Ireland.
How does it compare to China though? Even if all of us disappear overnight, that’s a drop in the ocean.
Hardly a shock, reliance on home heating by gas and oil, lots of car journeys, Guinness, high meat content in diet.
Let’s go to the global warming convention to talk about it so
“Ireland had 6.4 million cattle at the end of last year, the third biggest herd in the EU.”
That’s surprising.
Per capita Ireland has higher greenhouse gas emissions then China.
Ireland likely also has the second worst availability of public transport facilities.
It also needs more heating than Southern Europe, with their lovely nice weather.
All the new data centres will require also huge amounts of energy.
I’m sure this has come up before and it’s bollocks because they include the emissions from every Ryanair flight in Europe.
That’s fine. A few families in ranelagh don’t want some construction in their area for a few years! That’s the priority!
Haven’t bothered to read the article, but does that have anything to do with industries like data processing (which eats up a lot of electricity, and disproportionately contributes to CO2 emissions)?
Not exactly a shocker. We have a small population, in a country that is cold and damp for a good two thirds of the year. Still with a heavy reliance on solid fuels. Our main industries being pharmaceutical manufacturing and livestock farming too.
Irish agriculture has a part to play in these numbers, undoubtedly.
What bugs me is that Irish agriculture gets blamed for the food we export and also the fertiliser and fuel we import.
Other countries can sell us oil or fertiliser, can buy our food and magically they have no emissions penalty for their trouble.
In my opinion, per capita for emissions is nonsense and does not give a true picture of the final users of emissions. Essentially we are importing other countries emissions via exports particularly agricultural. From memory, the agri sector here accounts for about mid 30s per cent of total emissions where’s the European average for the agri sector is closer to mid teens so approx. double here. We export the vast majority of our agri. products so while we produce the emissions it’s other countries who are the ultimate consumers. However, if we here made a decision to reduce exports to reduce emissions but global demand for beef remained the same, the situation would be worse as, as I understand, our largely grass fed herd has relatively lower emissions than other exporting countries herds who would take our market share if world demand remained the same. Us reducing our emissions here via this route would ultimately increase total global emissons
Sure. So what?
Public transport non-existent so have to use car
It’s an island, so to go somewhere outside have to take a plane (unless you have time to waste on a ferry).
Old houses have pathetic insulation, so of course you need good heating in winter. Add to that ridiculously strong winds.
This nice beef and milk requires sacrifices, still better than importing Mexican stuff.
As a Canadian let me just say that these are rookie numbers.
That’s a donkey of stat
But but China! And India!
I already see the comments.
Will be taxed soon
Being a car dependent rural island nation will indeed do that you.