Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Professor O'Connor. We need to do a little bit of work on it. I am conscious of the time.

We were talking about afforestation earlier. The Teagasc opening statement mentions that " if afforestation rates were to continue at current rates (or up to 3,500 ha per annum) [which would actually be a big improvement on current rates], the forest sink sequestration rate would be less than 1 MtCO2e yr-1 by 2050". It continues: "... in the short term, afforestation will only generate a small contribution". I am taking it from that and other comments in that opening statement Mr. Spink does not believe the climate action plan target of a 0.8 Mt reduction per year by 2030 is even a prospect.

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