Watchdog urges Scotland to take action after repeatedly missing climate targets | Green politics
The UK Climate Control Authority warned of this Scotland It needs to take “immediate action at the rate and size” to reduce its emissions after the ministers dismantled a series of policy pledges.
the Climate Change Committee (CCC), an official advisory body, said that the ministers in Edinburgh need to take urgent measures to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation to cut off the total Eschenland emissions to nearly zero by 2045.
In its annual report on its progress, CCC confirmed that the original goal of the Scottish government of reducing emissions by 75 % by 2030 will be delayed for up to six years, because it has lost its annual goals over and over again.
In a embarrassing reflection, last year, the Scottish government led by the National Party was To give up this pledge After more shiny criticism from CCC, its struggling progress.
Her ministers have since then:
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Abandoning a 20 % cut goal goal by 2030.
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I quickly dropped a carbon removal homes by assigning low -carbon heating systems.
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Cut the financing to grow trees.
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Lost goals to restore the deteriorating peat lands.
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Ignoring a plan to reduce meat and dairy consumption, and has failed to use its powers to significantly impose taxes on air travel.
They have now adhered to replacing the previously binding annual targets with a five -year -old carbon budgets, an approach that UK governments already use, by relying on new CCC recommendations.
CCC said that by 2030, in the first carbon budget, Scotland must reduce its emissions by 57 %, and then aims to reduce 69 % by 2035 with its second budget. It should be 80 % less by 2040 and 94 % by 2045, with the remaining emissions absorbed by trees, peat lands and Co2 From the air.
Gillian Martin, Safi Zero Secretary in Scotland, said that CCC’s advice will be essential to the new climate plan that is currently formulated. The opposition parties and climate policy groups said their report has strengthened their complaints that the ministers failed to match their speech with the procedure.
The Institute of Public Policy Research, Thinktank, said that the Scottish ministers should put “tasks” of a new climate to develop comprehensive policies for the largest climatic effects such as heat in buildings, transportation and land use, which would win action.
“It is time to get out of the incentives obsession with prices and behavioral anti -behaviorals,” said Dave Haki, an IPPR.
“SNP has already torn one of the goals – we urgently need a real plan to face the remaining Scottish government’s goals,” said Sarah Boak, spokesman for Safi Al -Safir.
CCC has allocated fast heat pumps, homes heating, masspoint for homes, low carbon transport, wholesale planning to accelerate renewable energy sources, and much better financing for low -carbon cultivation for urgent work.
“The Scottish government is already known, as we all do, without serious effort, we will fail to protect our world from catastrophic damage,” said Patrick Harvey, the co -commander of the Scottish Green Party, who was subjected to power exchange with SNP by former Prime Minister Humza Youssaf.
CCC said it believed that a net zero goal in Scotland was an investigation, but the internal advice of the Scottish government was very dark about its horizons. She indicates her current expectations2Unless there is a significant increase in politics.
CCC did not support calls for the Scottish work of the new nuclear power plants in Scotland, but it also warned the Scottish ministers that they should not allow the construction of a new gas power plant in Peterid without carbon capture technology-which has not yet funded the UK government.
