Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Professor Valérie Masson-Delmotte:
What we see in the pathways is a very sharp and immediate decline in the use of coal and the phasing out of coal without capture and storage, which makes it much more challenging economically compared to other options. There is a decline in the use of coal even by 2030.