4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Thank you very much. So, what are your views on the Welsh Government's decision to set air quality targets in regulations rather than on the face of the Bill? Shall I come to you first, Matthew?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. So, what are the changes you'd want to see that would give it more purpose in actually changing behaviour and changing policy?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. Joe Carter.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes, local air quality management. Is it accurate and do we use it extensively enough?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Thank you very much. So, how effective is the current local air quality monitoring regime? Does it take account of the latest scientific research? And does it tell us accurately enough the things that should be top of our list for action?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Another argument we heard from the professor from Swansea University was that one year won't necessarily give you a realistic picture—it might be a COVID year, or the timescale of actually getting this thing geared up, so that five years gives you a more…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
One of our previous witnesses talked about the need for a collaborative approach and that simply putting information out there isn't sufficient.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
But it's also about making the evidence that is out there more accessible to the general public, to engage them in the process of change. Simply reporting it and people like us all reading it isn't going to be sufficient to get the change. Sarah Jones, what…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes, I do, actually. We've talked quite a lot about what we know about—'we' the experts in the room as opposed to the general public—local air quality monitoring. The general public—. It's not the talking point at the bus stop or outside the school, and I…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I just wanted to come back to the social equity issues, because it isn't just—. The people who live in these areas of very high vehicle congestion don't choose to live there. They're all people who've been allocated spaces there, or they can't afford to live…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, we'd have local authorities, obviously, because they're the obvious—
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Idling is one of the most irritating activities, because it seems completely unnecessary to me. But are the powers in this Bill strong enough to actually stop people doing it?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
The major problem is that people don't choose to live in these areas of high congestion; they're all people who have no choices—homeless accommodation—and the people doing the polluting don't live there themselves.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
A lot of our children are already quite well informed, because I've seen in some of the schools in Cardiff Central, which is obviously a local air quality disaster zone, that they have these monitors that you can see, and they're quite easy to interpret. But…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I understand the importance of constraining policy makers in the powers they have, but my concern about this Bill is that it's setting the bar so high in terms of it has to be objectively measured and it has to specify a date by which the standard is to be…
3 Mai 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith—'Datgarboneiddio’r sector tai preifat'
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Un o’r pethau a fyddai’n ein galluogi i fynd yn gyflymach fyddai pe baem yn newid y rheoliadau ynghylch pympiau gwres ffynhonnell aer i alluogi’r rhai ohonom sy’n byw mewn tai teras, yn enwedig mewn ardaloedd trefol, i gael manteision…
3 Mai 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith—'Datgarboneiddio’r sector tai preifat'
Rwy'n cydnabod yn llwyr y gwaith da sydd wedi'i wneud ym maes tai cymdeithasol yng Nghymru, ac rwy'n derbyn bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn eithaf prin o arian, gydag £1 biliwn ar goll o'i chyllideb eleni. Rwy'n edrych ymlaen at 'Byw'n Dda mewn Cartrefi Carbon…
3 Mai 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Cyhoeddwyd cynllun Cymru Sero Net 18 mis yn ôl, felly rwy’n pryderu mai dim ond nawr y mae’r grŵp gweithredu ar ddatgarboneiddio'n edrych ar bethau strategol. Pryd fyddwch chi'n gallu darparu eglurder i bobl sy’n rhentu’n breifat, neu sydd â mwy o asedau nag…
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
We certainly do. We have a climate emergency and we have a massive skilled workforce that needs to be applying their skills to all the new industries that we need.
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
Where does the net-zero skills plan sit in all this, then, because that's the Welsh Government's proposal of how we're going to meet the massive skills gaps that are popping up all over the place? Is this a coherent plan as far as you're concerned?
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
You talked about the options being unclear, Shavanah, in terms of what should we be upskilling our workforce for in the future. What's your assessment of the coherence of the clean growth plan of the south Wales industrial cluster, because they talk about a…
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
So, you think all the blockages on this modernisation is just the absence of the Treasury opening up its purse.
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
It is, but you are obviously involved.
26 Ebrill 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Datgarboneiddio’r diwydiant dur yn ne Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag undebau llafur
But what about the diversification that Tata could be doing on its own land? Why are we not seeing huge arrays of renewable energy popping up next door to where the steel production operations are happening? Because that's a way of them generating their own…
