Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
26th Meeting, 2025
The Committee took evidence on the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 from—
Professor Gabi Hegerl, Professor of Climate System Science, University of Edinburgh;
Professor Fabrice Renaud, Professor of Environmental Risk & Community Resilience and Director of the National Centre for Resilience, University of Glasgow;
Dr Andrew Russell, Director, Environmental Change and Communities Research Centre;
Dr Ellie Murtagh, Post Doctoral researcher, Maynooth University;
and then from—
Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Philip Raines, Deputy Director, Domestic Climate Change and Julia Burgham Pearson, Lawyer, Scottish Government.
Edward Mountain declared he is a partner in Delfur Farms Farming Partnership, of Moray, a farming business that grows crops and breeds cattle for beef production.
Gillian Martin (Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy) moved—S6M-18060—That the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee recommends that the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 be approved.
After debate, the motion was agreed to (by division: For 3, Against 0, Abstentions 4).