Climate body calls for urgent Government action to 'actively encourage' tree-planting

Urgent action is needed now to ensure Ireland’s forestry sector — generally assumed to be a carbon sink — does not become a source of greenhouse gas emissions, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Tree-planting rates remain well below the target of 8,000 hectares per year.

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