As Sameh Shoukry, COP27 president designate, stated only last week,

'As best available science indicates, some impacts of climate change are now irreversible and require concerted global solidarity and action, not empty rhetoric'.

Whilst the world is being told to prioritise the environmental crisis, here in Wales our environmental governance has been described by Professor Steve Ormerod as

'not being able to handle substantial environmental legal issues.'

Whilst our climate change committee has welcomed your aim to create a greener Wales, we have been abundantly clear that it is imperative that environmental law is underpinned by a robust governance framework that provides effective oversight of implementation and accountability of Government when it fails to deliver. In light of the global call for urgent action to protect our environment, why has your Government—[Interruption.] Are you listening to your Minister? Sorry. Why has your Government not prioritised the implementation of the statutory environmental governance oversight body that your Government promised during the last Senedd term? Why have you failed on this, Trefnydd? Diolch.