Webinar: A Low Carbon Pathway for Wales Consultation

Webinar: A Low Carbon Pathway for Wales
Consultation
Date: 19 September 2018, 2pm

We are required by law to reduce our emissions by at least 80% in
2050. This will require very significant changes to how we live and
work. This consultation presents initial thoughts on how we might
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% between now and 2030.

Proposals include:

• Accelerating sustainable energy production and foster
  local ownership
• Improving opportunities for active travel and develop a
  comprehensive charging network for electric vehicles
• Setting higher energy efficiency standards for new
  building projects.

This consultation
is an important opportunity for all stakeholders – local
authorities, businesses, community groups, members of the public,
professional bodies and others – to provide their views on what
actions we should take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
2030.

By the end of this webinar you will understand:

• What the consultation is about and how it relates to
  sectors of energy, transport, buildings and infrastructure,
  agriculture, land use and waste, public sector, technology, and
  business and skills
• Why the consultation matters to your work
• How to respond to the consultation

This webinar will be delivered in English but contributions and
questions are welcomed in Welsh or English.

To book please click the link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-a-low-carbon-pathway-for-wales-consultation-tickets-48269516423

(The closing date for the consultation is 4 October 2018)

‘Low Carbon
Pathway for Wales’ Consultation: List of potential actions to
2030
 
1. Collaborate with business to further decarbonise their
activities whilst at the same time improving their competitiveness
and productivity to take advantage of the opportunities arising
from the transition to a low-carbon economy
2. Work with Regional Skills Partnerships to anticipate future
skills needs, focusing on priority growth sectors identified within
regions
3. Review all current skills and work-based learning programmes to
explore whether they can respond more flexibly to emerging
requirements such as those represented by decarbonisation, working
closely with employers
4. Conduct a gap analysis of options where innovation can support
the decarbonisation agenda and maximise the opportunities
5. Collaborate with organisations across all levels of society and
involve citizens in achieving our low-carbon pathway
6. Provide fruit, shade and fuel trees for the entire Mount Elgon
region, Uganda by 2030

Power
7. Support the development of regional and local energy planning
to address the supply, distribution, and use of energy
8. Support innovation and commercialisation of new products,
processes and services in the energy system
9. Develop and implement Wales’s policy position around the
extraction and combustion of fossil fuels in power generation
10. Accelerate the deployment of renewable generation whilst
encouraging local ownership

Transport
11. Develop a charging network that encourages early take-up of
electric vehicles (EVs) and explore the merits of other measures,
including access to bus lanes and free municipal parking
12. Reduce the carbon footprint of taxis and buses to zero within
10 years to achieve the aim in the Economic Action Plan
13. Double the percentage of adults making cycling journeys at
least once a week and increase the percentage of people making
walking journeys at least once a week by 25% from the 2016
baseline
14. Explore the relationship between speed limits and greenhouse
gas emissions, with a view to considering environmental factors in
speed limit reviews

Buildings
15. Set higher energy efficiency standards for new builds through
reviewing Building Regulations Part L (Conservation of Fuel and
Power)
16. Develop a long-term residential retrofit programme based on
evidence
17. Establish the baseline of energy use and associated emissions
from business sector buildings
18. Deliver buildings that are more sustainable by using
innovative construction techniques to reduce and meet the energy
demand within buildings and increase the use of sustainable
materials, such as timber
19. Scope out the challenges and opportunities around low-carbon
heat

Agriculture
20. Provide post-Brexit support in the form of a land management
programme that contains a public goods scheme and an economic
resilience scheme, replacing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
with a framework that also links support to emissions reduction and
removals
21. Ensure that emissions reduction is considered in any
regulatory reform proposals arising from the land management
programme consultation

Land use and
forestry
22. Revise our regulatory and support regimes to increase tree
planting to at least 2,000 hectares per year, aiming to increase
this to 4,000 hectares
23. Identify preferred areas for tree planting, including
commercial woodlands and planting at medium and large scale
24. Ensure that all peatlands supporting semi natural habitats are
under active management by 2030 by supporting, enabling and
co-ordinating the restoration and sustainable management of
peatland, as well as utilising and maximising associated funding
opportunities

Industry
25. Commission an independent economic and technical feasibility
study on carbon capture use and storage (CCUS)
26. Consider the further development of our Environment Protection
Scheme (EPS) beyond 2020 to support the most carbon-intensive
industries
27. Consider waste heat recovery and use as part of the approach
to heat policy
28. Establish an industry-led working group on
decarbonisation

Public
sector
29. Support the public sector to baseline, monitor and report
progress towards carbon neutrality 30.Public sector buildings are
supplied with renewable electricity by 2020 and, where practicably
possible, are supplied with low-carbon heat by 2030
31. All new cars and light goods vehicles in the public sector
fleet are ultra low emission by 2025 and where practicably
possible, all heavy goods are ultra low emission by 2030

Waste
32. Create new opportunities for resource efficient manufacturing
through embedding resource efficiency within our programme of
innovation support to SMEs and using public sector procurement to
stimulate the market