Full coverage: Environment

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”.

An Taisce’s challenge to Glanbia’s cheese factory raises many questions: Is litigation against individual projects the new policy battleground? How much of a facility’s supply chain should be scrutinised in the planning process? Experts offer varied answers.

When he started his low-carbon cement manufacturing company 20 years ago, Donal O’Riain freely admits that the timing was wrong. Now high-profile investors are injecting millions into Ecocem’s promise to fix one of the world’s worst-polluting industries.

From science to soul-searching, the industry is showing signs of a deep shift in addressing its environmental impact. The bad news is that the rest of the world has moved on, and rules are long set for the rest of this decade. The good news is that work taking place now will be useful to tackle the real challenge coming after 2030.

Increasingly conscious Irish consumers have attracted Vienna-based Refurbed here, but Brexit also had a role to play, according to its CEO and co-founder Kilian Kaminski.