Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Professor John FitzGerald:
Yes. What I am saying is that the Oireachtas enacts the 2050 target and a more ambitious target for 2030 and we then take that into account. I think the phrase in the Bill refers to Government economic policy or environmental policy, but the way we would interpret that is that if the Oireachtas says this is the target for 2030 and this is the target for 2050, we will then set out carbon budgets consistent with that. It is for the Oireachtas, however, to be clear on the 2030 and 2050 targets.
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