P-05-869
Declare a Climate Emergency and fit all policies with zero-carbon
targets, Correspondence – Petitioner to Committee,
25.09.19
- What are your thoughts on the
attached document?
- A seemingly comprehensive
response, which must be continually progressed and held to account
by our AMs..
- Does it adequately address the
issues that you raised?
- The agricultural financial
support will have its focus on supporting farmers through Brexit
transition, but will it go further to enable the landscapes' use as
a vital carbon sequestration mechanism? Welsh agricultural heritage
must be defended, but not hobble progressive land use and
management. With equal consideration, it should be integrated into
bold restoration of pre-iron-age landscapes with modern
food-production solutions, all supported by promotion of
agricultural, labour-intensive/low-carbon education and
traning.
- We note the first lines of the
bullet-pointed responses: "Publishing proposals...publishing
proposals...Completing a consultation...Committing to...Publishing
the recommendations...Committing to...Committing to...Publishing
proposals". Emergency demands swift action, and so far action has
only been talked about. The entire apparatus of the Senedd and
government should be brought to bear on involving citizens then
making these profound changes with utmost priority. Without
mitigation efforts led by Wales and the UK, and especially without
resilience/adaptation responses within Wales, all other policy
areas will be severely impacted as the effects of the climate
crises bites. Climate changes everything, and demands unprecedented
scale of action.
- Do you have further questions
in response?
- None
- Is there anything additional
that you would like the Committee to know at this stage, either in
response to this document or as an update to the
Committee?
- Please continue to involve XR
Cymru/XR Cardiff with further development of citizen's assembly
processes, by the contacts already established.