, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Fab. Thank you, Chair. Thank you very much.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay, helpful. James, any closing remarks on this?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. Jemma, James, anybody want to add anything on that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay, just on that point, then, what's delivering that good practice? Is it good teachers who are aware of what's happening or aware of the opportunities, a curriculum that's delivering for them, or is it—we've seen examples of this in Pembrokeshire—where…
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Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay, that’s interesting. Thank you for that. And then we’ve heard the importance of teachers having a good understanding of these potential future opportunities, especially in terms of careers, but I was just wondering how important you think it is that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay. I can see heads nodding there.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay, thank you. So, on the point then of that terminology around green jobs or green economy, green opportunities, has anybody got another potential descriptive word to call it? I know, Matt, you said about 'new' jobs. Is there something else that can be…
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Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
It’s interesting, because, Matt, your point there about putting the ‘green’ tag on it sometimes leads to a bit of uncertainty—all the data shows that the younger generation are more in tune with climate change and all the potential issues around that than…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Okay, thank you. Jemma.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good afternoon, panel. Representing a constituency in rural west Wales, we see the change in demographics with young people leaving and the older generation there. And in terms of green skills and the opportunities around, for example, the…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Brilliant. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
That's really helpful. And then just going back to your initial point around the broader political ask that you mentioned, I take from that then that it's right that we look at the definition of sustainability not just being sustainability in terms of…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Thanks, Chair. It's really refreshing hearing this panel, actually, because as someone who comes from an agricultural background—touching on a previous point of Jenny's questions around reducing emissions technology—I don't think the SFS, in its current…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
Thank you, James. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
And are there better ways, potentially, of delivering carbon sequestration than just tree planting, or is it a suite of measures that is required?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - External views
On that point there where you said 'deliver that outcome', this is something that I've been trying to rationalise in my head. The outcome is what? Delivering tree planting, carbon sequestration, increasing canopy cover—what is the outcome that is trying to be…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Yes. Thank you very much, Chair. I appreciate it. Just on the tree planting policy—and you're right, there's a uniformity in agreement that trees are of benefit. Have Welsh Government lost the argument with the sector on this due to just their insistence on…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Thanks, Andrew. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
So, there's an agreement there of potentially reducing the 17, or remanaging, reframing, restructuring the 17 to make the scheme more attractive, for farmers to go, 'Ah, actually, that is something that I can apply and therefore deliver the environmental…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Thank you. It was just to develop the thoughts around the optional collaborative layers and, Alex, you've touched on it there in detail, but, Andrew, I want to give you an opportunity to get into the weeds on it: 17 universal actions, where the budget should…
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Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Thanks, Rhys. Rhys, over to you. You mentioned the universal and optional collaborative tiers in your previous answers, and a bit more depth on that would be appreciated.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
On the phasing out of BPS, are you content with what is currently being proposed by the Welsh Government in that, or is there another way that NFFN would envisage that being done?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Sustainable Farming Scheme - Environmental organisations
Thanks, Rhys. You touched on there both the universal actions and the optional and collaborative tiers, and I was wondering if I could delve into that in a little bit more depth. You mentioned there the attractiveness financially of farmers having to sign up…
