Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Climate Change Issues: Discussion

4:00 pm

Photo of Pat DeeringPat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I draw members' attention to a chart among the documents supplied. Deputy Martin Kenny asked about the percentage and how we compared to other countries. If one looks through the chart it can be seen that Ireland was on 30.8% from 2015, which is an increase from 26.2%. This relates to agriculture's emissions as a percentage of all sectors, including indirect CO2. Agriculture's emissions rose from 26.22% to 30.8% in 2015. The country nearest to us in that regard is Latvia on 23.52%. I presume those figures are correct and that the witnesses know them off the tops of their heads. Lithuania is on 22.61% and Denmark is on 20.2%. We appear to be quite far ahead of the posse from that point of view, in terms of emissions from agriculture. Is that correct?

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