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The Indigenous Leaders from Peruvian Amazon using Welsh Government funding to move to renewable energy
Members from a Peruvian Amazon nation visited Wales this week to discuss the Wampís’ vital work to protect the Amazon rainforest and how Welsh Government funding is helping to support them move to renewable energy.
An electric vehicle motor show has come to Cardiff as part of Wales Climate Week.
The event, held at Techniquest in Cardiff Bay, allowed visitors to see and test drive the latest electric vehicles available for purchase.
Deputy First Minister launches the biggest Wales Climate Week yet
How can Wales adapt to a changing climate?
£14 million available to farmers for further SFS Preparatory Phase schemes
The Deputy First Minister with responsibility for Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, has, today [Monday 4 November], announced that application windows for further SFS preparatory phase schemes are now open.
The £580,000 project restoring and re-wiggling a damaged Cardiff river
Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies has visited a £580,000 project which aims to reconnect a Cardiff stream to its historical channel and floodplain and encourage the reintroduction of salmon, eels and trout.
Harvesting the benefits of enhancing biodiversity locally.
As delegates from around the world meet in Cali, Columbia for Biodiversity COP16, the Deputy First Minister with responsibility for Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, recently had a chance to speak to pupils in Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron to see what action they are taking to protect nature and why.
Wales and the Netherlands mark 80th anniversary of ‘s-Hertogenbosch liberation
The Deputy First Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies and Wales Office Minister, Dame Nia Griffith, have attended commemorations of the city’s liberation from the Germans in 1944 by the 53rd Welsh Infantry Division.
Governments launch Independent Water Commission in largest review of the sector since privatisation
- The UK and Welsh Governments have introduced major legislation with new powers to bring criminal charges against water executives and a ban on bonuses.
- Next stage in fixing the water industry is the launch of a wide-reaching Independent Commission to strengthen regulation, boost investment and inform further reform of the water sector.
- Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Sir Jon Cunliffe appointed to Chair the Commission focusing on tackling inherited systemic problems and securing the infrastructure we need to meet the challenges of the future and clean up Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas.
Deputy First Minister shares how Wales can tackle the causes and impacts of climate change together
As world leaders gather this week at the Biodiversity COP16 in Cali and a month before world leaders gather at Baku for COP 29, the Welsh Government has published a strategy focused on delivering a Wales adapted for our changing climate.
Thousands of Welsh farms receive BPS advance payments.
Today [14 October] £157.8m has been paid to over 15,500 Welsh farm businesses as Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2024 advance payments are made.
Multi-million pound flood defence work protecting one of Ceredigion’s iconic towns for the future
Deputy First Minister with responsibility for Climate Change, Huw Irranca-Davies, has visited Aberaeron to see the progress of a £31.5m flood defence scheme.
Wales to host major international sustainability event
International speakers and delegates will gather in Cardiff next week as Wales hosts the international Circular Economy Hotspot for the first time.