Meeting Venue:
Video Conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 30 September 2021
Meeting time: 09.15
For further information contact:
Marc Wyn Jones
Committee Clerk
0300 200 6565
SeneddClimate@senedd.wales
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Private pre-meeting (09.00- 09.15)
In accordance with Standing Order 34.19, the Chair has determined that the public are excluded from the Committee's meeting in order to protect public health. This meeting will be broadcast live on www.senedd.tv
Public meeting (09.15-12.35)
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
(09.15)
2 Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
(09.15-10.15) (Pages 1 - 36)
The Rt Hon Lord Deben, Chair – Climate Change Committee
Sophie Howe - Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Attached Documents:
Research brief: Climate change, flooding, biodiversity and
environment
Paper - Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Break (10.15-10.25)
3 Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
(10.25-11.25) (Pages 37 - 50)
Haf Elgar, Director - Friends of the Earth (FOE) Cymru
Anne Meikle, Director – World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Cymru
Jeremy Parr, Head of Flood & Incident Risk Management – Natural Resources Wales
Clive Walmsley, Specialist Advisor on Climate Change and Decarbonisation – Natural Resources Wales
Attached Documents:
Paper - Friends of the Earth (FOE) Cymru
Paper - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Cymru
Paper - Natural Resources Wales
Break (11.25-11.35)
4 Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
(11.35-12.35) (Pages 51 - 74)
Professor Richard Cowell, School of Geography and Planning - Cardiff University
Ruth Jenkins, Head of Natural Resources – Natural Resources Wales
Annie Smith, Head of Nature Policy and Casework - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru, representing Wales Environment Link
Clare Trotman, Acting Head of Conservation (Wales) - Marine Conservation Society, representing Wales Environment Link
Attached Documents:
Paper - Professor Cowell
Paper - Wales Environment Link
Paper - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Cymru
Paper - Marine Conservation Society
Lunch break (12.35-13.20)
Private pre-meeting (13.20-13.30)
Public meeting (13.30-15.30)
5 Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
(13.30-14.30) (Pages 75 - 78)
Jerry Langford, Public Affairs Manager – Woodland Trust
Katie-Jo Luxton, Director – Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru
Claire Shrewsbury, Director of Insights and Innovation – WRAP Cymru
Attached Documents:
Paper - Woodland Trust
Break (14.30-14.40)
6 Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
(14.40-15.30) (Pages 79 - 88)
Dr David Clubb – Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Attached Documents:
Research brief: National Infrastructure Commission for Wales
Letter from the Deputy Minister for Climate Change to the Chair
regarding the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure
Commission for Wales (NICW)
7 Paper(s) to note
(15.30)
7.1 Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill
(Page 89)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Climate Change regarding
the Committee's report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for
the Environment Bill
7.2 Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Environment Bill
(Page 90)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Llywydd regarding Senedd scrutiny of
Legislative Consent Memorandums
7.3 UK/Japan: Protocol Amending the Agreement for Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
(Page 91)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair, Legislation and Justice Committee to the
Chair in relation to UK/Japan: Protocol Amending the Agreement for
Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
7.4 Environmental principles and governance
(Page 92)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Environmental Governance Task Group to the Minister
for Climate Change in relation to environmental governance
following the UK’s departure from the European
Union.
7.5 Common Frameworks
(Pages 93 - 100)
Attached Documents:
Correspondence from the Chair, Legislation, Justice and
Constitution Committee to the Chair regarding scrutiny by Senedd
Committees of common frameworks
7.6 Welsh Water
(Pages 101 - 103)
Attached Documents:
Letter from Welsh Water to the Chair following their evidence
session with the Committee on 16 September 2021
7.7 Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
(Pages 104 - 105)
Attached Documents:
Correspondence from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to
the Chair introducing the work of the Authority.
8 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
(15.30)
Private meeting (15.30-16.00)
9 Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: consideration of evidence heard under items 2,3,4 and 5
10 Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW): consideration of evidence heard under item 6
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