Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:17 pm on 6 December 2022.
Thank you very much. I too congratulate you and all your stakeholders for achieving both the interim and the net emissions targets, because I really think that's excellent. I look forward to studying the net-zero strategic action plan you commit to publish by the end of this week, and particularly the annex to the final statement, because I want to ask you what's in there about the food carbon footprint that Wales has, because that obviously will help inform us how we reduce that, because it is the single biggest contributor that individuals make, as opposed to large-scale decisions made by Government.
I agree that there's no room for complacency in all this, and that the planet faces a really desperate situation if we don't act now. The Equality and Social Justice Committee's report, 'Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes Programme', which we published in May, called for a clear long-term strategy for decarbonisation to give industry the confidence it needs to invest in skills, technology and people. We also asked the net-zero skills action plan to be published no later than July. Now we're told it won't even be published by the end of December. I'm underwhelmed by that, and I want to know if not this month, then when exactly next year, because we really, really do need that to pull that whole decarbonisation of our housing together.