Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I do move the amendments in Paul Davies’s name. I welcome the fact we’re having this debate; I think it is an important subject. I also welcome the significant strides that have been taken to reduce the carbon footprint, and the Welsh Government has given some leadership in this area, but I would say, before I’m viewed as being too generous, that we are still short of where we want to be, and perhaps in comparison to some other areas of the United Kingdom, we could do better.

In 2014, the level of emissions in Wales was around 18 per cent below the 1990 level. That compares with the UK as a whole getting a reduction of 36 per cent. Wales accounts for 9 per cent of UK-wide emissions at the moment with only 5 per cent of the UK population. Now, there are reasons for this, such as our industrial heritage. However, it does mean that we’ve got to take this issue even more seriously than other parts of the UK. It’s an overriding issue for them as well, but it does bring with it extra challenges for us.

The Cabinet Secretary mentioned the public sector, which has relatively low emissions, though I think the—. I don’t know if this is coherent, but the multiplier effect that it can have is quite considerable. I mean, the commute for one thing—all those public servants driving into work individually. But we can be more imaginative than that, looking at the way students get to school and the school run. There are many issues that involve public services that generate very high emissions at the moment.

Can I turn to our two amendments? We did want to sharpen this motion somewhat, but they’re both intended to improve our general performance here, and to be constructive. The first, on carbon budgets: now, these are a vital tool in reducing national budgets, but the Welsh Government has been very slow to use this particular tool to date. If I take section 31 of Environment (Wales) Act 2016, it does state that we must set carbon budgets for the first two budgetary periods—that’s 2016 to 2020, and then 2021 to 2025—and that these have to be set, or at least the first one, before the end of 2018. Well, we are, actually, nearly half way through the first budgetary period, and there’s still no imminent prospect of that budget being set in legislation—the deadline has not yet been exhausted. But if you compare the UK Government’s action in this area—and that was taken by a Labour administration, incidentally—in the Climate Change Act 2008, statutory obligations were created for carbon budgets. The Act came into force in November 2008, and the levels for the carbon budgets were announced the following April, in 2009, and they were approved and then entered into force in May 2009.