Climate Action Plan
Dail Éireann — 2021-03-10
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

By prior arrangement I will take Deputy Kenny's question for him.
Like many others we are alarmed at the use of and over-reliance on negative emissions technology, NETs, in the climate action Bill. We have been warned repeatedly by the science and by the scientists that over-reliance on technology that does not actually exist and that gives us hope for the future without dealing with the here and now is the wrong way to go. I would like the Minister to make a statement on that. If we are over-reliant on NETs we may never see an avoidance of a 2°C rise in temperature.

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Sitting date: 2021-03-10