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P-05-869 Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
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Meeting: 07/01/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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3 P-05-869 Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 43 KB View as HTML (3/1) 8 KB
- 23.10.19 Correspondence - Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to Chair, item 3 PDF 979 KB
- 23.10.19 Correspondence - Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to Chair - Annex: Proposed membership of the Decarbonisation Cabinet Sub-Committee, item 3 PDF 13 KB
Minutes:
The Committee considered further
correspondence and agreed to keep a watching brief on the Welsh Government’s
response to the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee report
on progress on climate change, before considering whether it can take any
further action.
Meeting: 01/10/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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3 P-05-869 Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 26 KB View as HTML (3/1) 8 KB
- 12.08.19 Correspondence - Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to Chair, item 3 PDF 2 MB
- 25.09.19 Correspondence - Petitioner to Chair, item 3 PDF 31 KB View as HTML (3/3) 5 KB
- 25.09.19 Correspondence - Extinction Rebellion Cymru to Chair, item 3 PDF 42 KB View as HTML (3/4) 10 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered further evidence and agreed to write to the Minister for
Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to:
- ask for clarification of the membership,
role and schedule of the Cabinet Sub-Committee established since the
climate emergency declaration; and
- ask what support and funding the Welsh
Government would be willing to contribute to the establishment and
facilitation of a citizens’ assembly on climate change.
Meeting: 09/07/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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3 P-05-869 Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 43 KB View as HTML (3/1) 8 KB
- 13.06.19 Correspondence - Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to Chair, item 3 PDF 86 KB
- 02.07.19 Correspondence - Petitioner to Committee, item 3 PDF 193 KB View as HTML (3/3) 8 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered further correspondence from the Minister for Environment,
Energy and Rural Affairs and from the petitioner and agreed to:
- write back to the Minister to ask for a
response to the petitioners’ call for a Citizens Assembly and for further
information, including a timescale, about the review of actions in
Prosperity for All: A Low Carbon Wales; and
- share details of the petition with the
Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee and ask them to
raise the issues with the Minister in a future evidence session.
Meeting: 19/06/2019 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)
Debate on Petition P-05-869: Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
NDM7076 Janet
Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the National Assembly for
Wales:
Notes the petition ‘P-05-869 Declare a Climate
Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets’ which received 6,148
signatures.
P-05-869
Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
Minutes:
The item started at 17.10
NDM7076 Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the
National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the petition ‘P-05-869
Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets’
which received 6,148 signatures.
The motion was
agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Meeting: 07/05/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)
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2 P-05-869 Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon targets
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 2 PDF 43 KB View as HTML (2/1) 8 KB
- Research brief, item 2 PDF 98 KB View as HTML (2/2) 50 KB
- 19.03.19 Correspondence - Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affiars to Chair, item 2 PDF 2 MB
- 29.04.19 Welsh Government statetment declaring a climate emergency, item 2 PDF 94 KB View as HTML (2/4) 5 KB
- 30.04.19 Correspondence - Petitioner to Committee, item 2 PDF 228 KB View as HTML (2/5) 20 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:
·
write
back to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs to seek an
update on the latest actions taken by the Welsh Government, including its
declaration of a Climate Emergency on 30 April and the updated advice from the
UK Committee on Climate Change published in early May; and
·
write
to the Business Committee to seek time for the petition to be debated in
Plenary.