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How are councils working with cross-sectoral partners to use the natural environment (its "green infrastructure") to achieve net zero targets?
The call for views closed on 26 January 2022 at midnight..
Engagement.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 February 2021
In particular, the Programme for Government highlights commitments to:
Create a £100 million Green Jobs Fund
Allocate £60 million to support industrial and manufacturing decarbonisation
Maintain current levels of spend on active travel at £100million per year
Uplift spending in Heat and Energy efficiency from £112m in 2019/20 to £398m p.a. in 2025-26
Continue to develop the Agricultural Transformation Fund
Bring forward recommendations for new mechanisms of agricultural support
Provide an additional £100 million to support new forestry planting.
By 31 March 2022, all properties will need to have at least EPC band E.
From 1 April 2022, any new tenancy in the private rented sector will require the property to have an EPC of at least band D.
If the committee is minded to pursue this proposal, it may of course wish to ensure than any new temporary rules are subject to periodic review.iiParliamentary Bureau.
We chose locations that the Parliament had not visited much or at all in the past. We drew on the creativity of the people we were visiting to design the days together, in ways that suited them and that they would enjoy.
It is about breastfeeding being visible in areas that pregnant women and new mothers visit regularly. I am pleased that, on my home island of Islay, the bookshop is breastfeeding friendly.
At NFU Scotland’s autumn conference on 26 October, I committed to working with the farming sector to provide support for repair of flood banks that were damaged by the extreme rainfall during October to protect our vitally productive farm land.