Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion

Dr. Frank O'Mara:

I would. It is a very scientific challenge and endeavour to quantify what the emissions are on those soils. We are investing a lot of money and have a lot of researchers and technologists involved in that. It is definitely challenging to do that. It will be a big job to establish the drainage status of those soils once we have identified where they are and to know what is a drained peat soil or peat soil. There is a definition of peat that it has to be 40 cm of peat so while it might look like it falls into the definition of peat soil when looking in from the road, when one measures the amount of peat in it, it might not be peat soil at all. There is a lot of uncertainty.

The other thing, of which my colleague reminded, is that the land use review is currently under way. That was very much in the Government's mind when they deferred the setting of the LULUCF targets.

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