Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Impact on Carbon Budgets of Trend Towards Heavier and Larger Vehicles: Discussion
Professor Hannah Daly:
No, not with any degree of certainty because we do not track the embodied carbon of individual car models. That would depend on where they are manufactured and the power grid in the countries in which they are made. We do not regulate for embodied carbon but we do have a target in the climate action plan to start tracking embodied carbon or at least consumption-based emissions from imported goods. The main emissions from any vehicle come from its use rather than its manufacture.