1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Yes, it is going on, and that’s why we’re encouraging them to bring forward the consultation ASAP so that we can get on with it.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
—yes—the carbon budget. I'm sure you could do it in writing, Jon, but do you mind, Chair, if I give Jon the last minute?
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
So, we're very keen to bring forward the consultation as soon as possible. We want to get on with it, basically. We need to understand what the effect of the EU carbon border tax will be for the UK and we need to do that at some speed. I can see that Jon is…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Yes, Huw. So, I was just going to come to say that the biggest issue for us is greater transparency in the use of the revenues generated. So, when we finally hit on this scheme and people do have to pay for some of their allowances, then the reinvestment of…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Thanks, Huw. So, I'm definitely going to get Jon and Lucy to come in on this one, but just to start you off. So, this is based on the 'polluter pays' principle and it's a market-based policy—you already know this—incentivising investment in low-carbon…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
There was a process, yes.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Indeed.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Well, they'll publish their terms of reference and how they were formed at the appropriate time. I'm not going to pre-announce it, sorry.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
So, I answered that last one, Janet. They're going to come to the group as an observer, and then, tempting though it is to pre-announce things, and you're all very good at tempting me to do this, as I've just said, the group will publish its terms of…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
So, we hope the group will help us bring Welsh society along with us. That's what we want. That's the big problem for us. So, as I said right at the beginning, we could go to net zero much faster if we didn't care about anything else, but we do care—all of…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Thank you, Delyth. As you know, this is part of the co-operation agreement between the Welsh Government and the Plaid Cymru group, and the agreement committed us to commission independent advice to examine potential pathways to net zero by 2035. I've had a…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
And then there are others that are ongoing. So, you'll all be familiar with the innovative housing programme, for example. My colleague Jeremy Miles has made sure that all new schools are now at net zero. That's an incoming Minister making a change there. So…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Poor Jon is struggling. So, policies are a bit more arbitrary than your question would lead, aren't they? We have a new policy called the roads review—that wasn't in contemplation when the budget was put in place. Two new Ministers came in, and they had a…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Huw, can I translate that for a minute? Sorry, if you don't mind.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Yes. I don't know if it's you or Lucy, Jon—whichever of you.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Thanks, Huw. So, the data piece is really important here; sectors have varying degrees of data availability, and some policies apply a much longer term impact on greenhouse gas emissions that can't be observed over a five-year-long carbon budget period. So…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
If it helps the committee, the current Minister is Graham Stuart. [Laughter.]
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Sure, Janet. There's a Welsh energy service that can help, but, actually, if you're talking about a very large array, then you've probably got a grid capacity problem, depending on where you are in Wales—and that's why I said, Chair, I won't go into it now…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Thanks, Janet. So, we've done a huge number of things in this space. The deployment rate since 2015 reflected a lot of uncertainty in the market, particularly the support available from UK Government funding streams. Again, we bitterly regret the loss of the…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
As I say Jenny, if you want to go into scrutiny of the Bill, you'll have to make sure you've got Lesley in front of you. I'm not here to do that.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
—the rural affairs Minister, and not for me, but obviously we work very closely with her. So, I'm not going to be answering on any very specific policy proposals. You'll all know it's going through Stage 2 of formal Senedd scrutiny at the moment. But…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Just to be really clear, Jenny, obviously you know perfectly well this is a matter for Lesley Griffiths—
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Thanks, Chair. So, we've got a real problem with good quality, complete and up-to-date data here, and there's a lack of some key data sets to characterise changes in the sector. We're working on a plan to try and sort that out, so I just wanted to put that as…
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Indeed, it did, so there we are.
1 Mawrth 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cyllideb Garbon 1 a Chymru Sero Net – craffu ar waith y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd.
Well, in the spring, and I'm not going to preannounce it, I'm afraid. I'm always tempted by committees into preannouncing things, but I'm not going to.
