Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte

12:10 pm

Mr. Gerard Murphy:

For our estate, it is 200 million tonnes of carbon, a lot of which is in the soil. Because a lot of our forests are located in peatlands which tend to sequester much more carbon it is quite interesting that the carbon is not only retained in the forest but also in the soil.