Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Jim Scheer:

Of course. We ran a number of scenarios for consideration by the Department and we tend to model the existing range of policies and measures that are in place at different times for different scenarios. We run a baseline scenario, where we look at existing policies and measures up to the latest year, where we have energy related data, which is 2017. We have an advanced scenario, where we include the policies and measures that are included in the national mitigation plan. At the moment we are working with the Department to run scenarios that will feed the national mitigation climate plan to include the national development plan policies and measures announced.