Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

12:30 pm

Mr. Trevor Donnellan:

The whole issue of developing marginal abatement cost curves is that this is an extremely time-consuming activity. One tries to accumulate sources of information from researchers across a large strand and put it into something that one use to make a MACC. That process is very time-consuming. We did a MACC in 2012 as well. Having said that, what has happened in recent years with respect to the development of Irish agriculture following quota elimination is that with the increase in agricultural activity is even greater than many of the most optimistic people would have suggested. The associated level of emissions is higher than we would have anticipated as well. This is not a finished product. We will have to come back and do this again.

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