Part of the debate – in the Senedd on 3 November 2021.
Amendment 1—Lesley Griffiths
Delete point 4 and add new points:
Regrets the year-on-year fall in cash terms of capital funding available as a result of the failure of the UK Government’s spending review to address the urgency of the climate and nature emergency, reducing the Welsh Government capital budget by 11 per cent in real terms by 2024-25 compared to this year.
Calls on the Welsh Government:
a) to produce a net zero skills action plan that promotes fair work in support of a just transition;
b) to bring forward a clean air Bill to establish an air quality target setting framework, which will take account of World Health Organisation guidelines;
c) to establish an environmental oversight body for Wales and introduce statutory targets to address the nature crisis in Wales;
Calls on the UK Government:
a) to recognise Wales’s ambition to ban single-use plastics by making regulations excluding them from the scope of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020;
b) to amend the Coal Industry Act 1994 to enable the implementation of Welsh Government policy to avoid the extraction of fossil fuels;
c) to replace, in full, funding previously received from the European Union to enable investment in the development of the marine energy industry in Wales;
d) to support rail electrification of the entire North Wales mainline and South Wales mainline as a significant step towards a net zero public transport system.