Sero net a thargedau hinsawdd

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…partners. The other thing to touch on is that we've got officials from the Treasury, biodiversity and decarbonisation involved in the Next Generation Budgets project. That is a project that's running for over 21 months. It'll be ending in February next year, and it's run by a group called the…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…by and large, we’ve managed to bring forward a budget where we can see that investment going forward in decarbonisation and responding to the biodiversity crisis, and our core features as well. If more came forward, we’d have a good conversation about how we’d prioritise it. There are going to be…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

Yes. This sits within my portfolio because it’s focused on that public sector decarbonisation piece, which I co-ordinate right across Cabinet. But, just to be absolutely crystal clear, other Ministers and other Cabinet Secretaries have a role to play within this, so local government and housing…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…FE and HE sector really driving forward and wanting to be right at the forefront of this change towards decarbonisation. We also have the Wales funding programme, it’s a separate programme, and that has over £11 million of new capital every single year for loans, and it’s quite an interesting…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Joyce WatsonLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…other than that provided through the energy service, is available to the public sector in their aim to decarbonise?

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonise”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…mean, within the energy service itself, which sits within my area, very much focusing on public sector decarbonisation, the energy service provides advice, technical guidance, support for the public sector, in developing some of these solutions for decarbonisation. These are very practical…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Joyce WatsonLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

How will the draft budget allocations for the Welsh Government energy service specifically support that public sector decarbonisation?

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…as well. There are some really good examples out there, so things such as local energy planning, decarbonisation of public service fleets, real practical progress on the ground. So, yes, it’s a stretching ambition for the public sector, but we expect it to be achieved.

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol

Joyce WatsonLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

So, do you think that it’s the case that the Welsh Government’s ambition for the public sector to achieve net zero by 2030 is achievable?

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “net zero”Cofnod swyddogol

Joyce WatsonLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

So, I take it, when you’re talking about the Climate Change Committee, you’re talking about the UK Climate Change Committee.

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “Climate Change Committee”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

…budget decisions and policy decisions is through our engagement with external bodies, like the Climate Change Committee as well, on adaptation. They provide feedback on our adaptation strategy. It was very valuable, actually. As we were developing our strategy, we were able to engage with them and…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “Climate Change Committee”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

Yes, yes. Well, the same approach applies to addressing the nature crisis as it does to the climate emergency as well; it needs to be embedded in every portfolio. And you're right in what you're saying: that is in education. And we should be proud of the investment that we do, still, within…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “climate emergency”Cofnod swyddogol

Huw Irranca-DaviesLlafur

8 Ionawr 2025, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2025-26 - Y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig

We've always made very clear in Government that we see both the climate emergency and also the nature crisis as being embedded right across Government. Every portfolio Minister, every directorate, every team of officials needs to integrate it, including within the budget process as well. Now, part…

Wedi'i dagio oherwydd: “climate emergency”, “net-zero”, “carbon budget”, “decarbonisation”Cofnod swyddogol