Nature and biodiversity

Yr Athro Steve Ormerod

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…we have brings is that none of them, effectively, cope with the big external pressures that now drive biodiversity decline, so climate change, nutrient distribution—we've heard a little bit about other pollutants, the movement of unwanted organisms, which takes you to the point of actually needing…

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Dr Victoria Jenkins

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…are some of the issues that I think we need to understand and to recognise that nature is complex, nature recovery is very complex, and we need complex responses, but at the same time we need to understand how we can make them work effectively.

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Yr Athro Steve Ormerod

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…only Skomer as the one key area, I think we may be leaving out some of the other designations. Our biodiversity deep-dive actually did record a bigger proportion of the marine environment being protected, and I think we would be doing a disfavour to our colleagues in Welsh Government and other…

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Dr Richard Unsworth

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…we can manage the impact of those effectively, and how we can improve their implementation to enhance biodiversity. That's not my expertise, but I think there are other opportunities there and that we need to bring different expertise into this discussion.

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

Thank you. Now, within the biodiversity deep-dive, you mentioned the marine side of things was under-represented, missing elements to address 30x30. How do you believe now we should be looking back? Do we need a more detailed deep-dive, and an action plan to monitor the process?

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Yr Athro Steve Ormerod

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…for its nature conservation importance. One of the key things is that we seldom address the drivers of biodiversity reduction. So, Richard has mentioned nutrients, but there are issues around climate change and the invasive non-native species. So, resource use in the round, if we are going to use…

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Dr Richard Unsworth

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…is continuing to degrade what is happening in our oceans, and with that we have significant threats to biodiversity, we have significant threats to our ability for the marine environment to actually act as a sink for carbon and not as a source. And that links to other parts of the degradation of our…

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Dr Victoria Jenkins

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

I would add that, in the past, we’ve relied on legislation as our sort of key approach in terms of nature recovery, and looking to 2030, and to the target of 30x30, and expanding what we’re doing in terms of the spatial approach, then law might not necessarily be the right approach. But if we're not…

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Yr Athro Steve Ormerod

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

I think, where we are in terms of progress, we have, because of the biodiversity deep-dive, a set of clear ideas about what we want to achieve, how we will meet, in particular, the target of somehow recognising 30 per cent of Wales's land and sea for biodiversity purposes. I think what we don’t have…

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Yr Athro Steve Ormerod

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

…I also chair the OECM committee, looking at other effective area-based conservation measures for the biodiversity deep-dive, and I sit on the biodiversity deep-dive principal panel. So, just to say for the record.

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

18 September 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with academics

So, at the end of the summer term, the committee agreed to undertake an inquiry into biodiversity, focusing on how the Welsh Government is responding to the international commitment to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. The committee held a consultation over the summer, and I’m pleased to…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

17 September 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas

…a massive legislative programme in front of us already with some really important Bills, including the environmental governance Bill. And, by the way, in that, we're working through the—. It's progressing very well, but the details of which targets we actually put within that are crucial. We always…

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