Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Energy Challenges: Discussion

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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----is very important in terms of coal. On the issue of demand reduction by 2030, it seems like the plan is for demand to continue to increase until 2030 overall. I am not talking about surge management in terms of demand, but in demand reduction overall. On coal, the Cerrejón mine in Colombia we know has huge human rights issues, but it seems that now, as we move away from Russian coal, there be a redirect to that coal. Of course, there is a public duty on equality and human rights that applies to the CRU-----