Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion

Mr. John Martin:

I will jump in on this and Dr. O'Grady may want to come in afterwards. We must remember this is measured against the baseline in 2018, so we are looking at a reduction of 10% in total kilometres driven by fossil fuel cars as compared with 2018, but that must also counter the level of growth we will see between now and 2030, which is not insignificant. There will be growth and we are trying to drive down the number of kilometres driven by those vehicles.