Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 2 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41713 by Ivan McKee on 13 November 2025, whether it will provide information on what money collected from the Scottish Government carbon levy on its business flights has been spent since the levy was introduced, broken down for each funded project by (a) project name and location, (b) delivery partner, (c) nature and description of the work undertaken, (d) carbon standard or methodology used, (e) cost, (f) verified or estimated CO2 reduction and (g) cost per tonne of CO2.
3 Projects have been funded since the levy was introduced.
1) Project 1
(a) Climate Change Saltire Fellowships
(b) Greener Scotland
(c) The Scottish Government agreed to set up a carbon emissions off-set/reduction fund as part of the bid to secure the 2014 Commonwealth Games for Glasgow. The fellowship scheme targeted resources to students from Commonwealth countries least able to deal with the impacts of climate change.
(d) N/A
(e) £40,000
(f) Not Measured
(g) N/A
2) Project 2
(a) Scotland Lights up Malawi
(b) 2020 Climate Group, Keep Scotland Beautiful and Glasgow Caledonian University
(c) To bring safe, solar energy to rural communities in Malawi replacing paraffin lights with rechargeable solar lighting.
(d) N/A
(e) £200,000
(f) Not Measured
(g) N/A
3) Project 3
(a) Solar PV
(b) Scottish Government
(c) To provide funding to install solar panels on SAH to demonstrate installing renewables on a listed building in a conservation area and world heritage site.
(d) GHG Protocol
(e) £200,000
(f) 39,128 Kg CO2 saved to date.
(g) N/A