Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council
2:00 am
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I have a quick question on the Paris test. The rationale for making the change has been explained but I would think it would be quite unusual for any scientific analysis, such as a modelling programme, that covers a considerable number of years to change its methodology to that extent in the middle of the programme. It is my understanding that the first and second budgets had the Paris test assigned to it but now the council is changed that. So carbon budget 1's figure was 295 MtCO2eq and carbon budget 2's was 200 MtCO2eq. What would they have been if the council had applied the same test as it applied to carbon budget 3? I am trying to see what the impact of shifting from one test to another is.
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