Carbon neutral: You'll fund the green economy - but what is it?
Billions of pounds of your money will seemingly be spent on the green economy whoever wins May's Welsh Parliament elections. But what does that mean?
Is this just wind farms and solar panels, more recycling and people switching to electric cars?
Well, it's a bit more than that.
One party pledges to spend £6bn on making Wales greener while another has promised £1bn a year. Other parties say they'll build low-carbon homes and will invest in the green economy.
Wales has already declared a climate emergency and pledged to be at least 95% carbon neutral by 2050 , with the ambition of becoming a zero waste nation and for the public sector in Wales to be net zero by the end of this decade.
So when Senedd election candidates knock on your door ahead of the 6 May ballot, what do they mean when they promise "green jobs" and a Covid "green recovery"?
In the drive to reduce our use of carbon because of climate change, companies and governments see "green jobs" as much wider than that.
Green jobs could mean using Welsh timber and wool to build cheap-to-run buildings, like they do at a social enterprise on the Gower peninsula.
There they teach green construction skills to patients recovering from brain injury or illness as part of their rehabilitation while also giving them skills for jobs in the future.
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