COP26

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Maps show historical expected annual flood damage (EAD) in GBP billion at 2020 values, and calculated EAD percentage increase with 1.8 degrees global warming. (Credit: University of Bristol and Fathom)

Study shows impact further flooding could have on UK

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots is pictured planting a tree at Redburn Country Park with Sir Robin Masefield and Dr Bill Lockhart from Holywood Shared Town.

Trees planted to help offset COP26 travel emissions

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David Paterson AFBI Grassland Agronomist and Steven Morrison AFBI Head of Livestock Production Sciences Branch with Maggie Gill at the Hills Robot milking parlour.

Professor reflects on what the outcomes of COP26 mean for NI

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Environment Minister Edwin Poots recently launched a draft Green Growth Strategy on behalf of the NI Executive. It will set out the long vision and a solid framework for tackling climate change

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Edwin Poots, Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs at NI Executive, at the Climate Leadership of subnational actors in the UK and beyond at COP26, Hydro, Glasgow. 11 November 2021. Photograph: Justin Goff/ UK Government

COP26: Poots represents Northern Ireland on the global stage at conference

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots.

Have your say - Environment Strategy consultation document launched

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Minister Edwin Poots

Poots highlights the need for low carbon future for NI

COP26: Countries pledge to reduce methane

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Victor Chestnutt, president, Ulster Farmers’ Union, pictured with Minette Batters, NFU president, John Davies, NFU Cymru president and Martin Kennedy, president of NFU Scotland.

UK agriculture is ‘key part of climate change solution’

New online funding hub is launched by DAERA

Gareth Wyn Jones shared his thoughts while feeding his cattle this week.

COP26: ‘Tax junk food, leave farmers alone’ urges television’s Gareth Wyn Jones

Minister Poots is pictured with First Minister Paul Givan MLA and John Martin, RSPB Head of Policy and Advocacy in Northern Ireland at COP26 in Glasgow.

COP26: Restoration of peatlands will play critical role in tackling climate chan...

Declan McAleer MLA and Philip McGuigan MLA at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

‘Farmers must be supported to tackle the climate crisis’

Vital role of UK journalists in climate fight

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Bristol has been named the fifth greenest city in the country

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Pictured at the joint DAERA/UFU ‘Agriculture and Climate Change: A Countryside COP event’ at CAFRE’s Greenmount campus are speakers; (from left-right) Victor Chestnutt, President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFUHQ), Dr Elizabeth Magowan, Director of Sustainable Agri-food Sciences Division at AFBI, DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA, Aleathea Brown - Sustainable Land Management Branch, CAFRE, Alice Stanton, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Dr.John Gilliland OBE - Director of Agriculture and Sustainability, Devenish Nutrition.

Farm businesses are already taking ‘practical steps’ to tackle climate change

The Queen has appeared to suggest she is “irritated” by the lack of action in tackling the climate crisis (Getty Images)

The Queen will 'regretfully' not be attending the COP26 climate change summit

News print considered environmentally-friendly and sustainable (photo: Shutterstock)

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Prince of Wales gives his message about saving the planet

First News: The Climate Challenge with message from HRH Prince Charles

UTV cameraman John Vennard filming for the Up Close Climate programme

UTV’s current affairs programme to examine climate crisis

In the run up to Cop26, scientists at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast are investigating a range of sustainable, natural resources with potential to greatly reduce agricultural emissions – by as much as 50%

QUB explore willow in race to net zero

Pupils from Antrim Grammar School and St Benedict’s College, Randalstown, helped launch a new DAERA-funded Carbon Literacy project to help in the fight against climate change. (L-R) Scott Howes, Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, Environment Minister Edwin Poots, Education Minister Michelle McIlveen and Ian Humphrey, Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.

Poots invests in new climate change project ahead of COP26

Minister Poots is pictured with (left to right) UFU President Victor Chestnutt and Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK Climate Change Committee

Agriculture and Climate Change conference planned

Boris Johnson addressed the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly and spoke about the threat of climate change (Getty Images)

Why Boris Johnson said Kermit the Frog was wrong in climate change speech

New Agriculture & Land Use Alliance launches Countryside COP

NSA: Holistic approach to sustainability is necessary

NSA begins countdown to COP26

Top 5 ways children would solve climate change

UFU meets UK High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26

Environment Minister Edwin Poots has recently met with the UK High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, Nigel Topping, during a three-day visit to Northern Ireland

Nigel Topping welcomed to Northern Ireland by Poots

Tyrone countryside. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

A year of climate action lies ahead

Poots kick-starts climate action campaign

2021 focus is on climate change

NFU president reflects on 2020

Call for cigarette-style warning on petrol pumps

Ban on petrol and diesel cars to be brought forward to 2035 and to include hybri...