Climate Bolloxolgy.

CAP will be used against you, eNGO's have latched onto it as the stick to beat landowners with, they won't let go any time soon.

Recent headlines, Donegal Catch is Alaskan fish, processed in Poland. I wouldn't go counting chickens just yet.

Some interesting statements to the Oireachtas Environment & Climate Action Committee from 4 climate experts.

The credentials of those experts

• Andrew Jackson, Environmental Lawyer, UCD (written submission)
• Barry McMullin, Dean of Engineering, DCU
• John Sweeney, Emeritus Prof Climatology, NUIM
• Kevin Anderson, Prof Energy and Climate change, Manchester University.

Points raised were

• Ireland is subsidising fossil fuels to the tune of €2.4bn a year (CSO, 2019). At COP26 we agreed to start phasing those out, but for now Ireland plans only to produce a road map for cutting subsidies in 2024. - Prof John Sweeney
• Ireland is wealthy, educated, low population density, with great renewables potential, but according to SEAI only 11% of our energy is green. In other words 90% of it is unsustainable and we have failed to reduce our emissions since 1990. - Prof Kevin Anderson 
• Our current Carbon Budgets fail to take account of emissions from Aviation and Shipping in a way that is legally questionable. If we included them we would have to adjust for a further 40 million tons of CO2e by 2030. - Prof Barry McMullin
• If a globally fair and equitable system of emissions cuts were to be applied and Ireland were to play its part in keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees we would have to reduce to Net Zero emissions by 2029 not 2050. - Prof Kevin Anderson
• Our annual emissions cutting ambition needs to be closer to 11% than 7% per annum to fulfil Paris Agreement obligations. - Prof John Sweeney
• Backloading actual emissions cuts to future carbon budgets places an unfair burden on future generations. It is interesting to note Germany's highest court recently held 55% cuts by 2030 infringed human rights of the young. New target there now 65%. - Dr Andrew Jackson
• If Ag reduces emissions by only 33%, that means a 60% burden for the rest of society. If Ag reduces by only 15%, that means an 80% burden on rest of society. If only 10%, which is language used in Food Vision 2030, burden on rest of society "unmanageable" - Prof John Sweeney
• Ireland has still not delivered its long term (2050) emissions reduction strategy, despite the deadline for this having passed two years ago. All our strategies are reliant on technology that has not yet been invented or tested at scale. - Dr Andrew Jackson

Source - Twitter thread from Journalist Philip Boucher Hayes

That info is coming directly from the CSO, which you can review at the link below which has the full details and data.

As regards energy generation and fossil fuels, you are correct, we've almost eliminated all fossil fuels from our generation with the exception of gas. Oil, coal and peat are almost at zero and are unlikely to form any part of generation after 2023.

It's not "their" definition, they are using the definition as defined by the OECD. From the CSO page

And yeah, gas is the primary source for power generation at present but the share of gas will be decreasing rapidly as off-shore wind generation ramps up.

CSO also put together the info graphic below

Honestly looks like diesel and aviation fuels are ripe for more taxation.