Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed)
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms Walsh. I might put the same question to the Department of Transport. I was reading the draft greater Dublin area, GDA, strategy last week and I put in a submission before the consultation closed last Monday. In that, it is said that emissions in the GDA under the draft strategy would reduce by 37% by 2042. The GDA is responsible for about one quarter of all of our transport emissions so if we are only aiming for 37% in a period that is twice as long as the timeframe that the first two carbon budgets take us to, are we missing a trick? Are these documents at all aligned with the 51% objective?
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