Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion
Dr. Oliver Kinnane:
At the moment, the embodied carbon is about 14% of the national figure. We could see that increase to more than 20% to 25%. I do not think it would reach 40%. A doubling of it is what we would project. I would have to go back to our models and have a look exactly at figures, and we can produce those. It could be up to 20% to 25%. There is an awful lot of construction outlined in the national development plan and we have tried to model that. It could push us to multiples of our target values, although the embodied carbon is not tied to the -51% reduction, necessarily. However, from a national carbon perspective, the answer is "yes".