15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Well, we've just changed the building regs—off the top of my head, last November—to 35 per cent additional insulation standards, and then there’s a five-year automatic pathway to the next upgrade. It's technology—
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
You know, it's got to be done, let's put it like that.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes. I mean, we—. Well, what choice do we have, really? If we don't do this now—. This is our last chance, isn't it? This is the quote that everybody uses: we're the first generation to know the damage we're making and the last one to do something about it…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Absolutely, Joyce. So, the way that the franchising system will work is it will be run from Transport for Wales, but it will have local authority input to make sure that the local authorities are able to tell us what the priority routes are for particular…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, there's a whole series of things there. Lee Waters has obviously the prime responsibility for this. The £2 fare in England is a bit of a 'Look over here' thing because they've also slashed well over 75 per cent of their routes. So, you can pay £2 if you…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, sure. So, we've got quite a lot of community energy schemes going—as part of the co-operation agreement for Ynni Cymru as well, actually, so that's developing at pace right across Wales. But as I said, ideally, you'd have grid connections for those…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We do do exactly that, and there are solar-powered charging points springing up all over the place, and we have an enormous amount—. Jon and I would need another hour to go through all of the community energy stuff.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We've just made an announcement about accelerating some of the interventions we have. I just want to make the point—I'm not sure the report quite picks it up in this way—that it's not for Governments to put a charging infrastructure in place. We have to…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Exactly, Chair; you almost answered your own question.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Absolutely. Our waste strategy is entirely embedded in our circular economy strategy, which has re-use at the top of the hierarchy, to be absolutely clear.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Very much so.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
On water, this is one of the ones where the UK Government will have to play a considerable role in this, because we don't control the levers for some of this. So, at the moment, the water companies are going into the price review that will set the prices for…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I mean, obviously, if it shows us something that we didn't know, then we'll take steps to redress it. But we are—. I did say right at the beginning that the one bit we're really baffled by is the waste. So, we'll just have to get under the data, and we…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Oh, yes, of course. Yes.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
The recyclate is worth a lot more to Wales and to the local authority if it's separated. And, Chair, I can see you're trying to move us on, but just the last thing is that people really need to realise that the recyclate is worth something and that we're…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
That's right. The recyclate—
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, absolutely.
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, we've already spoken to all of them; they're all transitioning. Pembrokeshire is the best example. They didn't transition for ages. They transitioned a year and a half ago, and they're now the top one in Wales. So, they've gone from bottom to top in—
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Well, Cardiff has left—. Let me just cut through. So, Cardiff has co-mingled recycling at the moment; they just don't meet their targets with that. We've had a full and frank discussion with Cardiff, who are now moving to blueprint in the next 18 months…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes. So, there's been a few kind of goes at this. So, you all remember it was part of the Environment (Wales) Bill, so that was back in 2013, that then ended up in the Bill in 2016, and then we've had two lots of consultations in September 2019, and then…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
But we're definitely pushing ahead with all of that. So, we've done well in the municipal recycling, but we still have a big problem with littering, which is why we want to do some of the other stuff, and we need now to get into business recycling and…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, we're a bit baffled by this bit of the report, I must say. We're going to have to do a lot of work on what their underlying data looks like for them to come to this conclusion; this is not the conclusion that we have come to. I mean, I just haven't had…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
And we're getting the farmers to speak to each other, actually, because, I think, nobody wants somebody like me to come along and tell you how to run your farm, quite rightly. But they do listen to other farmers, and the Stump Up For Trees project is a really…
15 Mehefin 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adroddiad Cynnydd Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd y DU: Lleihau allyriadau yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, so that's exactly what we're doing.
