Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion

Ms Deirdre Ryan:

It is challenging but I would say we are in the top ten for both. However, some countries do not include land use change, whereas we include land use change. We track if soya is coming in. We use the life cycle assessment approach, but other countries might use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change approach, which uses general emission factors. We have very accurate Irish ones. We are up there with the best in the world, certainly.