In the four years since Dáil Éireann declared a “climate and biodiversity emergency”, attempts to regulate the way we use land and the impact it has on the environment have been the most controversial. As the EU’s proposed Nature Restoration Law becomes the latest iteration of this effort to move through Brussels, an industry conference in Dublin last week offered a sample of the arguments agribusiness has been buttressing against policies that would result in cuts to Europe and Ireland’s agricultural production.  To translate big words into action, Ireland first translated climate targets agreed at the international and EU levels…

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