Chamber and committees

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Meeting Agenda

29th Meeting, 2025

Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Session: 6
Location: T4.40-CR2 The Fairfax Somerville Room
Start time: 09:15am
Published: Monday, September 29, 2025 01:41pm

1 Decision on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take items 3, 4, 5 and 6 in private.

2 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (UK Parliament legislation)

The Committee will take evidence on legislative consent memorandum LCM-S6-61 and wider issues around the production and use of SAF in Scotland from—

Witnesses

Dr Sebastian Eastham, Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation, Imperial College London

Celeste Hicks, Policy Manager, Aviation Environment Federation (AEF)

Professor Graham Hutchings, Regius Professor of Chemistry, Cardiff University

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Director UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) and Deputy Principal (Global Sustainability), Heriot-Watt University

Mark Morrison, Senior Consultant, Optimat

Clerk_Paper_1 posted 25/09/2025 (Ref: NZET/S6/25/29/1, 148KB, pdf)

NZET/S6/25/29/2(P) (Private Paper)

3 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill (UK Parliament legislation)

The Committee will consider the evidence heard earlier in the meeting.

4 Appointment to the Board of Environmental Standards Scotland

The Committee will consider correspondence from the Scottish Government.

NZET/S6/25/29/3(P) (Private Paper)

5 Subordinate legislation

The Committee will consider a draft report on the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025.

6 Ecocide (Scotland) Bill

The Committee will consider an analysis of responses to its Call for Views on the Bill and its approach to remaining scrutiny of the Bill at Stage 1.

NZET/S6/25/29/4(P) (Private Paper)

NZET/S6/25/29/5(P) (Private Paper)