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.