Agenda - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee room 3 Senedd and video

Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 9 July 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Marc Wyn Jones

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddClimate@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting (09.15-09.30)

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Public meeting (09.30-12.00)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

(09.30)

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2 Stage 1 scrutiny of the Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill  - Evidence session with academics

(09.30-10.40) (Pages 1 - 78)

Professor Steve Ormerod, Professor in Ecology - Cardiff University

Dr Victoria Jenkins, Associate Professor, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law - Swansea University

Dr Viviane Gravey, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics - Queens University Belfast

Professor Robert Lee, Director of Education for the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice at the University of Birmingham – on behalf of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)

Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill: consultation responses

Attached Documents:
Research brief - Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill
Paper - Professor Steve Ormerod
Paper - Dr Victoria Jenkins
Paper - Dr Viviane Gravey and Prof Ludivine Petetin
Paper - UK Environmental Law Association

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Break (10.40-10.50)

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3 Stage 1 scrutiny of the Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with environmental bodies

(10.50-12.00) (Pages 79 - 92)

Lynda Warren, Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales - IEPAW

John Henderson, Deputy Interim Environmental Protection Assessor - IEPAW

Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair - Office for Environmental Protection

Natalie Prosser, Chief Executive Officer - Office for Environmental Protection

Mark Roberts, Chief Executive - Environmental Standards Scotland

Attached Documents:
Paper - Office for Environmental Protection
Paper - Environmental Standards Scotland

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4 Papers to note (12.00)

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4.1 General scrutiny of the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

(Pages 93 - 112)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Deputy First Minister & Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs following the 27 March general scrutiny session
Response from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to the Chair following the 27 March general scrutiny session

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4.2 Bus Services (Wales) Bill

(Pages 113 - 114)

Attached Documents:
Letter from Cardiff Council to the Chair in relation to the Bus Services (Wales) Bill

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4.3 Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of Transport for Wales

(Page 115)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report: Pre-appointment hearing: Chair of Transport for Wales

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4.4 Transport Inter-Ministerial Group

(Page 116)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee in relation to the Transport Inter-Ministerial Group

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4.5 Scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales

(Pages 117 - 140)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the British Mountaineering Council Cymru to the Chair in relation to the scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Response from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report: Natural Resources Wales - Annual Scrutiny 2024-25
Response from Natural Resources Wales to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report: Natural Resources Wales - Annual Scrutiny 2024-25

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4.6 Legislative Consent: Bus Services (No. 2) Bill

(Pages 141 - 142)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report: Report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Bus Services (No. 2) Bill

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

(12.00)

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Private meeting (12.00-12.30)

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6 Consideration of evidence received under items 2 and 3

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7 Consideration of the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill

(Pages 143 - 149)

Attached Documents:
Legal note on the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill

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8 Consideration of draft report on storm response

(Pages 150 - 196)

Attached Documents:
Draft report on storm response

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