Net zero and climate targets

Y Dirprwy Lywydd / The Deputy Presiding Officer

21 January 2025, Plenary

The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025

Item 12 is next, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2025. And I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to move the motion—Huw Irranca-Davies.

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Growing the Timber Industry in Wales: Jobs and Green Growth

…planting rates in response to you, first of all. The tree planting targets that are recommended by the Climate Change Committee were very challenging, but we're committed to working with them to ensure that those targets have that ambition but that they're also realistic for Wales, recognising that…

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Growing the Timber Industry in Wales: Jobs and Green Growth

…Wales’s dependency on timber imports, of course, because we know that they tend to increase carbon emissions, and they raise ethical concerns over habitat destruction and poor environmental standards abroad. So, what measures are being taken to reduce that dependency, particularly maybe in the…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Growing the Timber Industry in Wales: Jobs and Green Growth

…And then we can refine and nuance it before we bring it forward. But recognising where we are with the carbon budget-setting process, as well as our ambitions on the timber strategy and woodland creation, we need to get on with this, we really do. So, we do have enough time, but let's urge people…

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Samuel KurtzConservative

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Growing the Timber Industry in Wales: Jobs and Green Growth

…land purchased for their total afforestation in an effort for companies to greenwash, offset their emissions, while making no changes to their own business practices. This change of use of land is highly damaging to the local communities and has a negative impact on food production and security, so…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Growing the Timber Industry in Wales: Jobs and Green Growth

…jobs in Wales. It'll help us build more sustainable housing and it will boost our progress towards decarbonisation. Managing forests sustainably for timber production is a prime example of green and sustainable economic growth. When trees are harvested, carbon sequestered when they were growing…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales

…we must consider the context in terms of the very critical report that was published yesterday by the climate change committee. That's going to crystallise how we see many of these things. These points are raised so that we can ensure that the really good, important work that is in the offing is…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales

…our target a year ahead of time—1.6 million tonnes of carbon has been safeguarded through this; carbon emissions reduced by 8,000 tonnes per year. It’s the equivalent of 5,700 car emissions. And peatland restoration also supports natural flood management, as well as improving water quality. But…

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Paul DaviesConservative

21 January 2025, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…symptoms, such as painful and swollen eyelids, headaches and nausea, as a result of potentially toxic emissions coming from the site. First Minister, it's vital that lessons are learned so that residents can live without the threat of their health being compromised because of the operations at this…

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Luke FletcherPlaid

20 January 2025, Petitions Committee

Updates to previous petitions

…way. In terms of this committee, we have reached the end of that. But it doesn't mean to say that the climate change committee or other committees can't take this up as well. I think it's important to just emphasise that with the petitioner. So, this isn't us saying that we're not wanting to do…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

16 January 2025, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2

…grant for further education institutions, £5 million to support the low-carbon heat grant towards decarbonisation of the education estate, and £2 million to uplift the grant allocation for Hwb and the school's ICT infrastructure grant. I think it's important to note that that's on top of a massive…

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Jack SargeantLabour

16 January 2025, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership

…from the National Trust or other areas, then we would clearly like to see that. You made the point on decarbonisation, which is crucial for the future, isn't it? I don't have the comparison on which the Member put the question, but I think there is certainly, perhaps, collaboration around what we…

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