Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We can come back with further detail on how the rewetting aspect is going to step out. ACRES is going to deliver from an emissions production point of view and a big objective in ACRES is also the biodiversity piece. While they are doing a lot of work in the biodiversity space, some of those measures do not necessarily translate into emissions reductions but it is massively important work in providing that space for nature. ACRES will achieve both objectives but a big objective behind it is addressing biodiversity and nature as well as bringing about emissions reductions.
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