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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Because that ought to inform the way they approach the planning applications. Okay, that's useful information. So, all public buildings are due to be net-zero carbon by 2030, but many local authorities, including Cardiff, seem to be blissfully unaware of this…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Are local authorities aware that a couple of the big six have changed?
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Absolutely. Okay, so Lord Deben's pretty tough on the role of current house builders dumping on the people who buy their houses, and he's calling for a fund from any house builder who builds more than 100 houses to compensate those people for having to…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So you think we have closed off that loophole, then?
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Thank you. Obviously, the climate change report is pretty critical about the lack of a comprehensive buildings policy. I had a look at the report, 'A Smarter Energy Future for Wales', that the predecessor committee wrote over seven years ago, and one of…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Could you write to us about the community energy power?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
We rehearsed quite a lot of this with Lee Waters in the debate last week. But I think one of the things is that, where the grid is non-existent, why are we not encouraging community energy to come forward, with an ability to earn some money for their…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Well, we'll have to come back to this another day.
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
—which is around how the Welsh Government will enable and encourage water companies and industrial users to reduce emissions from waste water. Obviously, this is a very contentious issue at the moment.
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I just have one more question—
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. All right. So, you do think we'll meet this target, then?
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
—is not available for sale.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
—because the quality of their waste—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
And by not acting sooner, these other authorities are losing money—
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Good. And there are other reluctant local authorities as well who also need to change.
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Just to go back to domestic waste recycling, some local authorities have been doing doorstep recycling or separation of waste since the beginning. Others, like Cardiff, are still tentatively beginning—
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Well, I think I can recall scrutinising the proposal for businesses to recycle in the fourth Senedd, so is there a particular reason why we didn't roll that out a little bit sooner?
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. I wanted to talk about waste, really, because there's quite a lot in the report to indicate that our progress, which was considerable since 2000 to about 2020—. We've really flatlined in the last three years, and I don't see how, unless we accelerate our…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
We heard compelling evidence last week that we should be taking a landscape approach to planting trees, rather than, 'You must do 10 per cent,' because you then enable farmers to collaborate and encourage them to think about putting shade over watercourses so…
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UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Well, let's come back to it afterwards.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I absolutely acknowledge the leadership role you've played in terms of the review of the roads and the courageous decisions you've taken on that. I just wanted to go back to National Grid, because it seems to me they have such a dominant role in how we…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Additional learning needs
Diagnosis is important, but, at the end of the day, the school has to devise some provision that meets the needs of the child, and the diagnosis will only be an indication. Schools have got to own the pupils that they've got, and ensure that they're making…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Additional learning needs
I was motivated to join this debate because I absolutely think that the Welsh Conservatives are framing it in the wrong way. Of course the number of children and young people receiving ALN support has decreased, because the system by which we evaluate it has…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
Do you agree with me that actually what it is is a list of the different recommendations that have come from both Audit Wales and from the climate change and the social justice committees, which is not a policy?
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv)—Warm This Winter campaign
The total is 581 MW for all these organisations throughout all the years that we've ever done this. We absolutely need to have an ambitious renewable energy programme, and it's an emergency; not a nice-to-have—an emergency.
