Dr. Kevin Hanrahan:

I have served on the carbon budgets working group, and the analysis of the temperature neutrality issue was done by people other than people from Teagasc. We were not advocating for it. We provided data and simulations of future paths of emissions. That analysis was done by Joe Wheatley from UCD. The choice to use the temperature neutrality concept was made by the council, not by the carbon budgets working group and certainly not by Teagasc.