Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion

Mr. Vincent Roddy:

We accept that. At an international level, in Finland, for example, on commonage lands and hill lands they say they are emitting 12 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year. In Ireland we are looking at considerably less so we need to clarify that.