As an amendment to motion S6M-17525 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Protecting Scotland’s Oil and Gas Industry), leave out from "in a way" to end and insert "to achieve net zero by 2045 as repeatedly agreed by all political parties in the Scottish Parliament; regrets that many of those who supported legally binding targets opposed the actions necessary to reach them, and that this resulted in the advice from the UK Climate Change Committee that the interim 2030 target was out of reach; considers accelerated action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to be vital for securing prosperity for future generations and to deliver climate justice for the most vulnerable nations in the Global South; notes in particular that Scotland’s transport, heating, land use and industry have seen significantly lower emission cuts than necessary; agrees that this failure cannot be repeated in the final two decades of the journey to net zero, and that accelerated progress is therefore needed; regrets that the Scottish Government's Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan has been subject to unacceptable delay; believes that it must reassert clear opposition to any new licensing of fossil fuel extraction, and calls on the Scottish Government to publish it alongside its proposals for the first carbon budgets before the summer recess 2025; condemns the reported comments of the Shadow Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, Andrew Bowie MP, who has described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as biased, and stated that the Conservative and Unionist Party is considering supporting withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement; recognises the scale of profit extracted by the fossil fuel industry over many decades, including from Scotland, at a time when it was clearly aware of the scale of damage that greenhouse gas emissions were doing, and believes that a just transition protecting workers and communities will only be possible if both the Scottish and UK governments force the industry to invest significantly in the clean industries of the future and in their workforce."
Submitted by: Douglas Lumsden, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Monday, May 12, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Submitted by: Michael Marra, North East Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Submitted by: Gillian Martin, Aberdeenshire East, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Supported by: Alasdair Allan
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, May 14, 2025