Why isn't climate change a bigger Welsh Senedd election issue?

You might expect climate change to be on voters' minds in a place like Pontypridd, which has repeatedly been hit by devastating floods in recent years. But here - like elsewhere - it's the cost of living that dominates our conversations with passers-by as we ask what matters to them ahead of the Senedd election on 7 May. "When I vote I'm thinking taxes, money... probably not the environment," says one, with another adding that cutting carbon emissions to net zero was "something for the future". Those who were thinking about the parties' green policies said they feared climate change had been "put on the back burner". The last Senedd election was held as the UK prepared to host COP26 in Glasgow. The Welsh Parliament had become the first in the world to vote to declare a climate emergency, and - like the UK - it had put legally-binding targets in place for Wales to reach net zero by 2050. That means big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions - by moving away from using oil and gas for energy, switching to electric vehicles as well as planting more trees. But as voters prepare to head back to the polls, political consensus around the issue has become fractured. Recent studies have shown a d