Diolch, Llywydd.

Llywydd, there are some basic economic realities that are quite clearly unknown to the Tory benches. Economic growth and action on climate are not opposing objectives; the greatest economic harm would result from a failure to prevent runaway climate change. The balance we must seek to strike is one that avoids policies that, by not considering economic and environmental factors, are self-defeating.

This is the first root-and-branch review of road building in Wales for generations, and it comes amidst a nature and climate emergency, a cost-of-living crisis, and at a time when the Welsh Government is facing unprecedented financial pressures. So, however much the Tories might want to turn the clock back, we simply cannot just carry on as we have done for the last 60 or 70 years, not when we know that we must make deeper carbon cuts in the next 10 years than we've managed to deliver in the last 30; not when we know that transport has, to date, been the laggard on the path to decarbonisation; and not when so many species in Wales—one in six species according to the latest state of nature report—are at serious risk of extinction.

We are taking action here in Wales to actually try to deliver on our net-zero commitments and our wider environmental responsibilities. How often have I heard warm words from the Tories in this Chamber on tackling climate change and protecting biodiversity? But, despite those warm words, I cannot recall a single serious or constructive suggestion from the Welsh Conservatives in response to these great challenges of our age. So, perhaps they could start setting out their alternative path to net zero with something they're actually genuinely committed to. And it would be good, while they're at it, to know whether they agree with the Climate Change Committee, who also advise the Westminster Government, of course, and put the future cost of inaction on climate change at around 4 per cent to 6 per cent of gross domestic product every single year. The fact is that even if we'd wanted to keep progressing all 55 schemes looked at as part of the roads review, we simply do not have the money to do so.