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Despite significant clean energy growth across the globe the IEA has warned that under today's policy settings, emissions would remain high enough to increase global average temperatures to around 2.4 °C.

With Ireland forecasted to reach its 80% renewable target by 2030, Cornwall Insight has confirmed that the increase in renewable technologies and generation will help lower winter energy prices below the pre-2021 historical average from 2027 onwards.

“I find it extraordinary that we are talking about banning solar on farmlands, but we are talking about putting oil drills on farmlands – it is an industrialised process,” said Simon Maine, managing director, corporate communications at investment firm Brookfield Asset Management.