Full coverage: Environment

Of the many transport situations where driving a car makes little sense, business trips are the most obvious. The tax treatment of expenses claims offers one of the many avenues needed to tackle the disproportionate cost of the drive-everywhere mindset.

The Climate Change Advisory Council is about to publish Ireland’s first carbon budgets, which will set hard limits on greenhouse gas emissions for the next decade. Its chair Marie Donnelly details, step by step, how this overall figure will translate into obligations for individual ministers, businesses and households.

With no momentum to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere is our next best hope of slowing global warming. Yet planting trees is not happening either, which means it is time we put the right price on it.

In a special podcast, Stephen Kinsella, Sinéad O’Sullivan, John Reynolds and Thomas Hubert watch the dust settle on the two climate change reports published last week and discuss ways of meeting the challenge ahead for politics, society and business.

Greenhouse gases, mitigation, emissions, targets... Behind the complexity of the science and the jargon, the policy options to tackle climate change are becoming increasingly clearer. Some industries and companies are suffering, others are benefiting. Since its launch, The Currency has been covering all cases.

The urgent need to stop carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is nothing new, but farmers and food processors were hoping the different gas released by livestock could be stabilised. The IPCC’s new report shows it must go down too.

Despite abundant knowledge on what needs to be done to stop global warming, it is not happening for the simple reason that nobody wants to do it. Humanity’s next best chance lies in technology.

Foodcloud is an unusual non-profit: it has merged, invested and scaled itself to the point where it's a significant European player. This is its story.

The Common Agricultural Policy accounts for one in every five euro of Irish farmgate revenue and the EU has finally struck an agreement aiming to make it “simpler, fairer and greener”. A new battle begins now to decide how Ireland’s agri-food industry will deliver this.

Carbon Collect is the brainchild of Irish entrepreneurs and former oil executives. It has now secured US government backing to tackle greenhouse gases with its “mechanical trees”.