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Strong financial supports acknowledged but widespread reservations about land availability for afforestation, increased environmental constraints and demotion of commercial forestry.
Forestry planting targets are miles behind the Government's target, but that's only one of the problems facing how tree planting will (or won't) contribute to climate targets.
Stakeholders say that the administration of the new programme needs to be streamlined to makes it more attractive, with high broadleaf targets and restricted planting on peats is criticised.
Although forestry has been identified as the most important land use in achieving net zero, it lacks targets and leadership to achieve realistic goals.
Renewables editor Stephen Robb recently visited Ireland’s largest sawmill, Balcas, which produces some 60,000t of wood pellets and a range of sawn timber products using Irish timber.