Climate emergency ‘doesn’t undermine new M4 relief road’

The Welsh Government confirmed last week that it had not dropped its plans to build a £1.4bn M4 Relief Road, one day after it formally declared a climate change emergency. 

Opposition politicians claim the two are incompatible, but the Government says reduced carbon emissions from traffic using its preferred ‘Black Route’ will make the scheme carbon neutral over a 50-year timescale.

On 29 April, environment minister Lesley Griffiths officially declared “a climate...

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