Publications
The challenge of allocating Irelands carbon budget among sectors
The Irish Government is currently deliberating on how to allocate nationally-adopted carbon budgets among sectors, a task which is understandably causing heated debates. The key debate is what carbon budget will be allocated to the agriculture sector, which is worth around 40% of overall greenhouse gas emissions (depending on how land use emission, “LULUCF”, is taken into account).
- Authors
Hannah Daly
- Year
- 2022
- Category
- Presentation - research
- Keywords
- Carbon Budgets, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ireland, LULUCF, Challenges
- Project
CAPACITY
- Full Citation
Daly, H. (2022). The challenge of allocating Ireland’s carbon budget among sectors. [online] MaREI. Available at: https://www.marei.ie/the-challenge-of-allocating-irelands-carbon-budget-among-sectors/.
- Link to Publication
- https://www.marei.ie/the-challenge-of-allocating-irelands-carbon-budget-among-sectors/
Abstract
Ireland’s carbon budgets create a legally-binding ceiling on overall GHG emissions between 2021-25 and 2025-30, consistent with overall GHGs falling by 51% between 2018 and 2030. We are already around one-quarter way through the first carbon budget period and indications from the EPA are that emissions have not even started to fall, not to mind at the rapid pace required to get us below the carbon budget.