Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I’d like to thank Delyth Jewell for highlighting such an important issue so early on in the Senedd term. I'm obviously really delighted; it's the first time I've spoken in this Senedd, and certainly the first time I've spoken as the new Minister for Climate Change, and I’d certainly like to thank her for giving us this early opportunity to have a decent first stab at what will be, I'm sure, a recurring theme all the way through this Senedd.

I actually had the real privilege of speaking at a youth ocean and climate summit yesterday. It was really nice to listen to the young people there. They did report all of the things that people have highlighted in their contributions today: a feeling of almost despair and the enormity of the task and so on. But what was really refreshing in the group of young people—they were all between 16 and 30; most of them were in the 16 end of the category, a few a little older—was their real sense of hope and ability as long as they're given the tools to do the job and they are listened to by the Governments that hold the levers of power. It was a real privilege to speak to them and to understand the dichotomy, I suppose, between those two senses of, 'It's overwhelming, it's too big for me', but also, 'Actually, I can make a real difference in my small way in my community and in a bigger way in my nation', and so on. So, that was really great.