New term, new Minister, same challenges

This blog was published on the Click on Wales site on September 17th, the original can be read here .
This week we start a new Assembly term with a reshuffled Welsh Government team, with Carl Sargeant taking on responsibility for climate change, on the eve of a UN summit challenging world leaders to cut climate emissions […]

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Climate change hits small-scale farmers from across the globe first and worst

writes Kieran O’Brien from CAFOD
Climate change has an impact upon the lives of billions of people throughout the world. Its effects are wide-reaching and complex. Small-holder farmers in particular are suffering from the impacts of dramatic climate events such as severe storms, drought and flooding; while unpredictable weather patterns have impacted on harvests, preventing farmers […]

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Wales takes a world lead on active travel

by Matt Hemsley
The Climate Change Commission for Wales has consistently highlighted that there is room for improvement in tackling emissions from transport in Wales1, and it is certainly a concern that emissions from transport have increased in recent years.
The transport sector in Wales accounts for around one-fifth of all devolved greenhouse gas emissions, so if […]

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