Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council

2:00 am

Ms Marie Donnelly:

In terms of the 15 scenarios, of course we can make those available. They are probably buried somewhere on the website at the moment. We will certainly extract them and make them available to the committee.

I will answer the question about fairness of energy consumption by reference to what would happen if the whole world went to sustainable energy using either wind or solar. I remember learning many years ago when I worked in the Commission that we have 3,000 times the supply of energy in solar a day than we actually use. There is no limitation of energy coming from solar, but there is a limitation on our ability to capture it. The second part of the Paris Agreement, which I mentioned earlier, is the whole issue of technology transfer and financial support for regions that may not have the opportunity to capture those kinds of energies and get the benefit from them. We have a temperature target we are looking at, but that does not end our responsibilities under the Paris Agreement. We have additional responsibilities. For example, the technological and financial responsibilities remain in place and need to be delivered on as we go forward.

We can certainly make the modelling available.

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