Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion

Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

That is happening in Germany, Canada, Finland and other areas of degraded peat soils. That needs to be farmed. We should invest to ensure landowners with a considerable store of carbon keep it in the ground.

We do not want bogs to dry up and emit all the time. Basically, a normal farmer would be paid to have a crop or harvest. In this case, people would be paid to keep the carbon in their soil and manage whatever they want above. That was what I was introducing here. Paludiculture seems to have been ignored so far. This is wet agriculture. Farmers who are really keen on having a sustainable economic outcome could do that. This is happening in Germany where farmers can grow a crop-----

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