Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Agriculture: Discussion
Dr. Gary Lanigan:
Even if between 8,000 and 16,000 ha per year were planted a year, and the latter is a really big figure, approximately 200,000 tonnes of CO2 would be sequestered between now and 2030.
That is because of what Mr. Spink has detailed. Regarding forestry management, by lengthening the rotational length to the mean maximum annual increment for example and delaying the clear-felling to the age class at which the tree reaches maximum maturity, we can probably offset somewhere between 1 million and 2 million tonnes of CO2 up to 2030, but that would mean a delay in-----