Net zero and climate targets

Jess Hooper

9 December 2021, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers

…on the hydrogen opportunity. So, we're working with the South Wales Industrial Cluster to look at the decarbonisation of big industry, and I think there is momentum there. There are a number of projects that are looking at it, and I think some further support for that. The attention is there. It…

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David Jones

9 December 2021, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers

…and this does link to supply chain. There is about 10 GW of offshore wind deployed at the moment. The Climate Change Committee said, to get to net zero, we're going to need 100 GW of offshore wind. That is staggering, and there are 26,000 people working in offshore wind at the moment—we're going to…

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David Jones

9 December 2021, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Marine environment management - evidence session 2: marine energy developers

…What floating wind brings is pace and scale and we need pace and scale at the moment to respond to the climate emergency. So, that would be our slight concern. I'm not saying that moving those powers is a good or bad thing; I don't know, but we just wouldn't want them to slow anything down, I think…

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Jane HuttLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Short Debate: The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Envy of the world?

…but we can work together to tackle these twin emergencies. We are taking those bold steps towards a net-zero Wales and addressing nature loss, improving diversity and planting more trees, and our shared policy area on sustainable public services will help us understand the future needs of Welsh…

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Rhys ab OwenPlaid

8 December 2021, Plenary

Short Debate: The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Envy of the world?

…planning. There is little point to plan and to strategise about anything else unless we tackle the climate emergency, and I'm so pleased that the co-operation agreement between the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru is looking to the possibility of reaching net zero by 2035. Yet, for that to happen…

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Rhys ab OwenPlaid

8 December 2021, Plenary

Short Debate: The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Envy of the world?

…thinking, which has, rightly and about time, come to the forefront recently. The COVID pandemic and the climate emergency have highlighted the need for long-term thinking to mitigate our destructive short-termism—the need to forward plan our environmental strategy to fit future needs, to forward…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Debate on petition P-06-1208 New laws to protect rare red squirrels from habitat loss which causes population decline

…us here in Wales to progress action to protect our wildlife. We are facing a nature crisis as well as a climate emergency, and we must take seriously the loss of biodiversity that will occur if actions to protect nature species, like the red squirrel, isn't taken. As Jack has highlighted, one of the…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…for major refurbishment and extension projects, and in fact those projects will themselves need to be net zero from 1 January 2022. But it's also the case that that programme isn't the only means by which school buildings are refurbished and capital invested in our school estate; it's also available…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…the Welsh Government's own targets become more stringent in the years ahead, taking us on our path to a net-zero Wales. But he is right to say, of course, that we need to make sure that all our public estate makes a contribution to that target as well. He will probably have noted, when the First…

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Altaf HussainConservative

8 December 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…to set targets for our new school and college buildings, and ensuring that they contribute to our net-zero carbon target is not something that ought to cause many problems. The bigger challenge is that many of our school buildings were built in the late Victorian and early Edwardian…

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Sarah MurphyLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Diolch, and I want to say a huge thank you to the Minister for his commitment to ensuring that net zero is a priority for our twenty-first century schools. It's an absolutely fantastic development commitment. As our climate change Minister said earlier, it is a wonderful part of our roles to be able…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

8 December 2021, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

I have mandated net-zero carbon under the new banner of 'sustainable communities for learning' for the twenty-first century schools and colleges investment programme from 1 January next year. All new–build, major refurbishment and extension projects will need to demonstrate delivery of net-zero…

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