Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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If you google carbon abatement, which is a central topic of discussion at COP28 at the moment, it has a very definite meaning, which is the reduction of the amount of carbon dioxide that is produced when coal and oil are burned. The significance is that it is when coal and oil are burned. That is not how the Minister means it.