NICW newsletter – Summer 2026
Meetings and events
You may have seen our Commissioners at a range of events, as delegates or panel members. These include National Emergency Briefing showings, ‘The Metro and Us’, adaptation events and sessions on the infrastructure implications for AI datacentres.
We also visited Port Talbot to hear about infrastructure developments, and the development of Tata Steel to produce steel from the Electric Arc Furnace. You can read about that in our blog posts (below)
Coming up
There’s still plenty of summer to come, and we will be busy working with Welsh Government to understand how our brief will be changing. The intense heat of June has given us plenty to think about, and will form part of the context as we develop our future work plans.
Blog posts
5 years as Chair
Our Chair, David Clubb, stepped down at the end of July. He shares his reflections of his time at the Commission.
A legacy in Grangetown
How can we support a long-term outcome from our Grangetown work?
A new future for Port Talbot
What we saw, heard and learned, from our visit to Port Talbot
AI infrastructure and Wales
Commissioner Nick Tune shares his perspectives on implications for more AI datacentres in Wales
Taking a flight to the year 2126
This post describes the event we held in Januray to transport people to the future, to consider how Nature should be integrated into our governance in 2026