Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

12:30 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I am all for that. We are talking about 17 million or 18 million tonnes if all goes well with all these various measures. Regarding the other figure of 50 million tonnes that are offsets, if I understand it correctly, about 28 million tonnes of that might come from forestry and water management of organic soils and, looking at the tables, our grassland management. Is that correct? Would roughly half of it come from that area?