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:
We will have that in place pretty soon. As about six months of the 18 months time limit probably have gone already, I expect by the end of next year we will be talking about what the LULUCF target is. Over the course of the next two to three years, we will see that uncertainly I talked about earlier diminishing a lot because our soil carbon observatory will be starting to produce reliable results. There is a land mapping project under way with Trinity College Dublin and others which will bring a lot of certainty into the areas. Over the course of the next two to three years, we will see that uncertainly diminishing. We will then be in the framework of at least knowing where the goalposts are with regard to the target and be able to work with landowners, whether they are private landowners we work with, farmers in other words, the State or others, to try to see what can be done. It is an area in which we potentially could make rapid progress as we approach the 2030 target.
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