A Health Impact Assessment of the 2024 Climate Action Plan's Measure to Expand Ireland's Organic Sector

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dc.contributor.authorO’Mullane, Monicaen
dc.contributor.authorKenny, Taraen
dc.contributor.authorSulley, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorBrennan , Margaret M.en
dc.contributor.authorSheehan, Caithlínen
dc.contributor.funderHealth Research Boarden
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-19T12:15:08Z
dc.date.available2026-03-19T12:15:08Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractThe Climate Action Plan is the Irish Government’s roadmap to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 51% against 2018 levels by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Under the national Climate Action Plan (DECC, 2024), the agriculture sector must achieve a 25% reduction in GHG by 2030. One of the policy objectives to support this target is the expansion of Ireland’s organic sector (DECC, 2024). To implement this objective, the Plan includes a specific action for the provision of “financial support to farmers who convert to organic farming,” (DECC, 2024: 295). The fourth Climate Action Plan (2025) was published while undertaking this HIA, with a continuation of the action to support organic farming through financial support to farmers (DECC, 2025: 126). It is expected that expanding the organic sector will assist in reducing fertiliser and pesticide use (DECC, 2024) and contribute to improved ecosystem health. A health impact assessment (HIA) has been undertaken on the policy objective ‘Expanding our Organic Sector’ from the Climate Action Plan (2024: 295). The purpose of this HIA is to (i) assess and report on the likely significant effects on the health of organic and conventional farmers in Ireland stemming from the objective to expand the organic sector, (ii) make recommendations to negate adverse health impacts and enhance opportunities for health gain and (iii) identify any health inequalities and recommended how these inequalities can be mitigated and addressed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHealth Research Board (Grant number: EIA-2022-001)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO’Mullane, M., Kenny, T., Sulley, A., Brennan, M. M. and Sheehan, C. (2025) A Health Impact Assessment of the 2024 Climate Action Plan's Measure to Expand Ireland's Organic Sector. https://doi.org/10.33178/10468/18639en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/10468/18639
dc.identifier.endpage74en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18639
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity College Cork
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. This document is made available under the CC BY license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subjectClimate Action Planen
dc.subjectGreenhouse gas emissionsen
dc.subjectOrganic farmingen
dc.subjectHealth impact assessmenten
dc.titleA Health Impact Assessment of the 2024 Climate Action Plan's Measure to Expand Ireland's Organic Sectoren
dc.typeReporten
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