30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Okay. Thank you, that's useful. And could you describe how you will ensure that commissioners work effectively as a team at this very difficult time for the whole of Wales?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
And a colleague earlier has already asked you about the terms of reference being far too broad, looked at by the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee in 2017. How do you think you're going to reshape the terms of reference and remit of your…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
Diolch. But it's better now, so, great. David, did you hear my question?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
This is not a time for dithering. This winter we’re going to be reaping the consequences of not having made enough progress on either renewable energy or decarbonising our homes. So, I just wondered how the smaller, streamlined team that you're proposing is…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay, that's interesting to know, but—[Inaudible]—to trees, and whether it's improving farmland by providing shade in very hot conditions for animals, or whether it's providing food and improving our food security. Anyway, perhaps we can talk further about—
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay, thank you. I just wanted to come back to the whole point of trees—the right tree in the right place. Jerry, you were talking about the multi-purposes of tree cover. I represent an urban constituency, and what we need in my area is more fruit trees…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Yes, I do, please.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
I'm not sure we've got time to go for a skills gap analysis; I'm in no doubt we do need to do that work, but surely we can recognise we've got a massive gap already and we need to get on with it. Anyway—
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you. I mean, clearly, there are lots of potential jobs in decarbonising our country, but we have a massive skills gap. If we are to ban anything other than passive housing, we need people who have the skills to build that housing. And, equally, if we're…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
I do apologise.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you very much.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Thank you. Just as we need to be measuring our carbon emissions in everything we do, we also need to ensure that biodiversity restoration is wired into our legislation. So, what are the gaps you may have identified, certainly in the environment Act, the…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
I just wanted to pick up on food that Anne mentioned earlier. How do we educate the public to understand that if we import food, or we buy food that is dependent on imported soya and corn, how do we get people to understand that this is a choice around how…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Thank you. Chair.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Thank you very much. Haf, what's your view on this?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Okay. Very briefly, could you just elaborate on what you mean by 'domestic'? Because I hadn't quite understood that—your third point.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Okay. Thanks. Clive, do you think targets and pathways to achieving them are a useful tool?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Okay. So, who wants to go first on this?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Fair enough. Okay. We'll come to you later, then.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Who'd like to go first? Shall we hear from Anne first, or Jeremy? We haven't heard from Jeremy recently. Jeremy.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Thank you. Bearing in mind Clive's point about the time lag on the publication of actual statistics, do you think the new plan should contain sector-specific emission reduction targets, and, obviously, the accompanying emission reduction pathways? If so…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
Okay, so is it targets that are going to focus the Government on this, or not?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
So, Sophie, focusing on what the Welsh Government can do, why do you think we haven't been more successful in engaging communities in having their own renewable energy schemes? Is it just a grid issue, or is it not the case that there are many more, other…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
Lord Deben, would you like to go first?
