📈 Many thanks for the chance to offer thoughts on whether the government is on track to meet the great green challenges of our time.

🚀A monumental shift will be required to move from planning to delivery.

🔍All eyes will be on the new environmental improvement plan when it appears later this year.

5️⃣ 🔗 Working with her ministers and new permanent secretary Paul Kissack, she must ensure that Defra’s many policy levers work in a unified and complementary way. She has many willing partners and allies. We are very much looking forward to working with her.

4️⃣ 🚀 Emma had a great first week announcing progress on oceans, peat burning and toxic pesticides. She must continue to seize the 'quick wins' waiting in the department's wings eg ending the digging up of peat bogs for garden compost & ridding supermarket shelves of products of damaging deforestation

3️⃣ 📗 A healthy natural world underpins the economy. By spending Defra’s budget well she can restore nature, while reducing flood risk, boosting farmers’ incomes and saving NHS £. The Circular Economy Strategy is one of the best opportunities Defra has to promote economic resilience and productivity.

2️⃣ 🍃 She must champion the environment across government. People want to breathe clean air, drink and swim in clean water, eat healthy and affordable food and experience the joys of nature. Defra's work touches the lives of and matters to millions of people.

1️⃣ ⚡She must instil a laser like focus on delivery, starting with getting the new environmental improvement plan out in October, followed swiftly by the land use framework, a plan to protect 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030 and implementing the new SPS agreement with the EU by 2027.

🙏 Thanks to the committee members and staff for their help with the preparations for the session.

👍 Giving evidence can be a nerve wracking experience but they made us feel comfortable from the start @delythjewell.bsky.social @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social

🌿 We discussed the independence and powers of the new Welsh environmental watchdog, environmental principles and biodiversity targets.

📗 After summer, the Committee will publish its recommendations which we hope will include a few of ours.

🔗 Read our evidence

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⏰ The climate change, environment and infrastructure committee asked us questions for 75 minutes.

🌊 We talked about the importance of making this important legislation as watertight as possible.

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