UK: Northern Ireland’s Rural Women at ‘Disproportionate Risk’ from Climate Change Carbon Budgets, Warns Campaign Group
Nov 30, 2025
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Mark Robinson
MSN
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Rural women in the north are among those that could facing a “disproportionate” impact from the government’s future carbon-cutting budgets, according to a campaign group.
It comes at the end of a four-month consultation led by the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) into preparing for the north’s fourth carbon budget, due for 2038.
Carbon budgets, which set out the maximum amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted in a five-year period, are now a statutory requirement following the introduction of the Climate Change Act in 2022.
The legislation was introduced with the aim of providing a system of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – namely reaching net-zero in the north by 2050.
In launching the consultation, DAERA minister Andrew Muir said his department wanted to “allow for gradual transition which can be delivered in a fair and just way” as they work towards reducing emissions.In their response, the Women’s Resource and Development Agency (WRDA) said it supported the carbon budget, but urged policymakers to “adopt a gender-sensitive approach to climate action”.