I'd like to start my contribution to this debate with a big 'diolch', 'thank you', to Greta Thunberg, the school strikers and Extinction Rebellion, but also to all of the other environmental campaigners and activists who've been raising this alarm for years, if not decades. You are succeeding, the conversation is changing—with some exceptions, of course.

The Extinction Rebellion protests have one central request: politicians must tell the truth about climate change and get serious about our ecological crisis. But the truth is, we are failing miserably. In Wales our carbon dioxide emissions have risen in recent years. Back in 2007, as part of the One Wales coalition agreement between Plaid Cymru and Labour, we agreed on binding greenhouse gas emission reductions, and to monitor this, a climate change commission was set up. What's happened instead? The targets have been missed and the climate change commission has now been abolished.

Now is not the time for the Welsh Government to congratulate themselves on progress and fall back on complacency. And now is not the time to applaud the UK Government's track record, when we've seen them cut sustainability funding. As Greta Thunberg has told us, 'The house is on fire', and I just don't see the panic. And that's why we reject both the Labour and the Tories' amendments today. It's just not true to say, Minister, that your actions go further. It looks too much like business as usual to me.

That's why the one demand of the climate change protestors, to set up citizens' assemblies, to ensure that Governments are held to account, is so key. Without that, the frustration that Governments are not telling the truth and are not doing everything they can to avert a climate emergency will just not go away. Our first step is to acknowledge the problem, and I'm glad, of course, that the Government announced its declaration of a climate emergency before today's vote, but that can't be the end of the matter. If the Welsh Government is honest about the climate emergency, the prospect of a new M4 around Newport would be scrapped. If we understood the severity of our ecological crisis, the idea of concreting over the Gwent levels would be ruled out as a catastrophe. We can no longer use twentieth-century answers to our twenty-first century problems. We have to think about how Government investment is used to combat and alleviate these problems to build resilience, and we must oppose investment that does the opposite. The M4 black route is a key test as to what this climate emergency declaration means. We all know that, if we're being honest with ourselves. We have to stop chasing jobs at any cost. There are no jobs on a dead planet. 

So, we want to see clear commitments and actions from this Government to make real its declaration of a climate emergency. We want to see the rapid emissions reductions and we want to see those citizens' assemblies, and nothing less will do.