Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 14 December 2016.
Well, I hope that more information also includes your response to the High Court judgment, and also I hope that you can take into account the fast-moving public policy in this area. Five of the cities that I think you actually joined with in a regional network following Marrakech have signed up to the proposal of banning diesel transport from the cities. Often, diesel cars are seen as a particular problem, though in fact it’s diesel lorries and transport that creates most of the pollution. Jeremy Corbyn has suggested banning all fossil fuel cars; it might not be his most—. [Interruption.] All cars, in fact; yes, possibly. It might not be his most ridiculous suggestion, actually, because Copenhagen has already suggested that in 10 years. Paris is looking at it. Cars are banned on alternate days in many cities throughout the world. But, of course, the answer is not to attack private cars; the answer is to move to an electricity infrastructure. And the answer is to use the tools that we have here already in Wales—the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 and the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 to achieve those policy proposals. So, in response to what other cities are doing, how can Wales step up and really achieve that transition away from personal fossil fuel-driven transportation to that of electric vehicles and much more sustainable integrated public transport?