Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Ken Byrne:

Yes, it will but not immediately. It takes time. In the medium term, it will, but in the short term, it will be slow to accrue. It takes time to deliver upon this and plantations need time to mature and do not necessarily achieve high sequestration rates until they are in their post canopy closure, so ten, 15, 20 or 30 years in is when it starts to max up. That is why I am suggesting that increasing rotation lengths may be good because the forests are continuing to accrue carbon at a high rate into that extended rotation period. That is why they give such added value or have the potential to do so.

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