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:
Yes. The earlier we can get the trees into the ground, the more we can sequester over the long term. However, to reach a 2 Mt target we could linearly increase from the current 2,000 ha up to 8,000 ha by 2030, but we would need to keep going at 8,000 ha per year for the following period.