The 2030 Carbon Reduction Target

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 3 October 2018.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:01, 3 October 2018

Your consultation raises some challenging targets in the context of climate change experts raising the red flag and saying that Government is simply not taking the action that needs to be taken if we're going to avoid rising levels of global warming. There was very distressing information today that the Conservative UK Government has yet again failed to raise the fuel levy, which endeavours to reflect the actual cost of people using private vehicles. And I want to understand how you think you're going to reach the very challenging target of a 43 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 2030 in the context of the proposal to invest £1.5 billion in a few miles of road on an M4 relief road, because the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales is arguing that this will increase the numbers of vehicles using that road by 42,000 vehicles every day. So, I want to understand what your strategy is for actually reducing vehicle emissions without reducing the number of vehicles on the road, and instead investing in public transport and active travel.