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Gearóid Maher, a fifth-generation Irish dairy farmer, stands in what looks like a field of weeds. He has planted the chicory, plantain, brassica, kale leaves and clover deliberately, to reduce his farm’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Yet he feels dairy farmers like him are being unfairly blamed as Ireland struggles to a make a dent in its ambitious climate targets.
