Question reference: S5W-25442
- Asked by: Gillian Martin, MSP for Aberdeenshire East, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 23 September 2019
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government when the Second Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme will be launched.
Answer
The Programme was launched yesterday. Climate Ready Scotland: Second Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme marks a new way of working on climate change adaptation for Scotland. The Programme, which builds on the work of the first Programme published in 2014, adopts a new cross-sectoral outcomes-based approach to embed work on climate change adaptation both across government and across Scotland.
The new, statutory, five year Climate Change Adaptation Programme sets out 170 policies and proposals from all sectors across government centred around our communities, climate justice, the economy, Scotland’s infrastructure and supporting systems, our natural, coastal and marine environments and our international partnerships. The Programme will address priority risks as advised by the Adaptation Committee of the Committee on Climate Change. It also includes a number of research projects which will help us to better understand and improve the action we will need to take.