Plaid Cymru

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30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Indeed. Thank you. And Katie-Jo.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Jerry Langford.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you, Jerry. Okay, Joyce next then.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
No, Jerry wants to come in. There you are, thank you, you're unmuted now.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
No, sorry, Jenny—I said 'Jerry'.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Jerry, you wanted to come in. Can we unmute Jerry, please?
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Who wants to pick up? Go on, then, Katie-Jo.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Excellent, thank you, Claire. And we'll be pursuing a number of the themes that we've just heard across the hour that we have ahead, really. Thank you. Okay, on to Janet.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay. Thank you, Jerry. And, Claire.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay. That's a good starter for 10, I'd say. Thank you, Katie-Jo. Jerry.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
There we go. Thank you very much. With that, therefore, I will welcome the witnesses to the meeting: firstly, Katie-Jo Luxton, who is the director of RSPB Cymru; Jerry Langford, who is public affairs manager with Woodland Trust; and Claire Shrewsbury…
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Welcome back, everyone, to the committee meeting. We move on to our next session as part of our consideration of committee priorities for the Sixth Senedd. Our session now is going to be focusing on the green recovery. But before doing that, can I ask Members…
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Wonderful. Well, on those notes, can I thank the four of you for your evidence to us today? Really valuable stuff, and it will make a big, big contribution to our deliberations over where we go as a committee over the next period. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank…
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
And final thoughts from Richard, as well, to conclude our session.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Maybe a Deputy Minister for the seas.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Thank you. Clare.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Ruth, would you like to share any thoughts with us as we conclude?
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
We'll come to you all, then, in turn, for some final thoughts as well on the back of that. Annie.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Yes, and the fixed period of that role as well, I suppose, focuses the mind in terms of making sure that we have a more permanent arrangement in place in good time. Okay. We're coming on to our last question now, and it's from Joyce Watson.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Okay. Thank you, Ruth. Annie.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Yes, absolutely. A lot of nodding heads. Thank you, Ruth. Okay. So, we're talking about what we'd like to see, but, of course, in the meantime we have an interim assessor here in Wales. I'm just wondering what the view is on the functioning of that…
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Good. Thank you, Annie. Ruth.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
I'll call Ruth in a moment. With all of that in mind, Annie, we do have certain aspects you mentioned, SoNaRR and everything, in Wales that might not be the case elsewhere, so to what extent can we look to England and Scotland in terms of their legislation…
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Yes, please do, yes.
30 September 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Thank you, Janet. And can I just add to that as well: I mean, Richard has touched on Scotland momentarily earlier; are there any things we can take from the English and Scottish approach as well, which would possibly contribute to the point that Janet is…