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Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - 2030 interim target
iiCommittee on Climate Change, Advice on a new Scottish Climate Change Bill, 22 March 2017, Chapter 2: Appropriate levels of emissions targets, pages 34-35
Groups such as the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association agreed with the l...
Last updated:
2 March 2026
Scottish Fiscal Commission Publication of report Fiscal Sustainability Perspectives
Responding to climate change will impact on the Scottish public finances in the next parliament and beyond.
Last updated:
22 December 2025
July 2022 FINAL Internal Tool SustainImpactAssessments
This version of the SDIA tool (version 3) has been created for Scottish Parliament users. Other organisations are recommended to use V.2. 2 2.
Last updated:
31 October 2025
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PB/S6/25/139 Parliamentary Bureau – Approval of Scottish Statutory Instruments Affirmative Instruments Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/Draft) 1.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 September 2024
Economy and Fair Work Committee 18 September 2024
I welcome Professor Keith Bell, mitigation committee member from the UK Climate Change Committee, and Professor Graeme Roy, chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission.
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - The current targets
The current targets are set out in Part One the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12) and are as follows—
A 2050 target of 80%;
A 2020 target of 42% (known as the "interim target");
Secondary legislation setting annual targets between 2010 and 2050 which would "allow the interim target and the 2050 target to be met"Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 3(2)(b) and for the targets set between 2020 and 2050 to be "at least 3% less than the target for the preceding year"Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 3(2)(c)(ii);
A requirement on the Scottish Government to seek advice from the "relevant body"Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 5 and consider the "target setting criteria"Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 4(4) when setting annual targets;
Modification of—
the percentage of 3% by which annual targets between 2020 and 2050 should be made more challengingClimate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 6(1)(a);
the dates by which annual targets should be setClimate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 6(1)(c);
the target setting criteriaClimate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 6(1)(d);
annual targets,Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 6(1)(b) but only to make them more challengingClimate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 6(8)(b);
A requirement that at least 80% of the reduction in the net Scottish emissions account in any target year must be from net Scottish emissions reductions (known as the domestic effort target, its effect is to limit the amount of the target which can be met through carbon trading); and
The Scottish Government to request a progress report from the relevant body each year.Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 9
It also provides for other matters, including:
A definition of the greenhouse gases covered by the targets;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 10
A definition of the baseline;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 11
A definition of the net Scottish emissions account;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 13
The inclusion of Scotland's share of international aviation and shipping emissions in calculating progress towards the target;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 16
The ability to include "removals" from carbon sequestration in the target;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 17
International carbon reporting practice;Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 19 and
Carbon units and accounting,Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 20 and the limit on the use of carbon units.Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 12), section 21
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 August 2018
The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - The Paris Agreement and Scotland's Response
Retrieved from <a href="COP21 has, as we had hoped, achieved a big step forward in the international fight against climate change. [...] Devolved administrations, like the Scottish Government, will be strong drivers of a progressive climate agenda.
Last updated:
14 May 2024
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(S6T-01985) Tuesday 14 May 2024 2 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Chamber | Seòmar 2. Paul O'Kane: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Scottish Men's Sheds Association could collapse due to the withdrawal of Scottish Government funding.
Last updated:
13 April 2022
20220412_Town Centre Action Plan Review Joint response from SG and COSLA
Some of these recommendations are challenging but as whole they set a clear direction and were welcomed by the Scottish Government. However, the Scottish Government can only do so much itself.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 January 2021
Update to the Climate Change Plan - Background Information and Key Issues - Introduction
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-governments-climate-change-plan-third-report-proposals-policies-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-governments-climate-change-plan-t...
