Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Interim Report on National Climate Change Policy: Discussion with NESC

2:55 pm

Mr. Noel Cahill:

Our focus in this report was on looking at ways in which our 2020 targets could be met. It is something of a quirk of the approach that forestry is not counted, or land use change is not counted, in defining those 2020 targets. In the figures we discussed, we did not factor in the savings one would get from forestry. Clearly, from a long-term perspective, we should go beyond thinking purely in terms of compliance. There is a significant effect in terms of forestry and it needs to be part of longer-term policy.

We did not go into it for the purposes of this report.

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