Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 5 July 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed)
2:55 pm
Mr. Gavin Harte:
We are working on the science of the matter, and the atmosphere can absorb so much carbon. We are looking at our part in the process. It is a technical matter as to where we take a reference but ultimately the purpose of the Bill is to achieve a reduction in our emissions in the long term. We are looking to achieve a low-carbon society, which in our view would be an economy with an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050.
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