A Net Zero Committee could:
Have a clear mandate as a connecting, strategic committee, considering the alignment of key Government strategies across portfolios with net zero goals;
Explore strategic areas such as the wellbeing economy, pursuit of the UN SDGs, alignment of net zero and the National Performance Framework, embedding just transition and human-rights approaches, green recovery, innovation, behaviour change and the circular economy;
Lead and co-ordinate scrutiny of work on climate mitigation: including the Climate Change Plans; the annual monitoring reports on progress with the Climate Change Plan; annual reports on emissions reduction targets; annual reports on consumption emissions and; sectoral delivery of targets;
Lead and co-ordinate scrutiny on the Adaptation Programme: Climate Ready Scotland: Climate Change Adaptation Programme 2019-24 and; the annual Adaptation Programme progress reports;
Lead scrutiny of the climate impact of the Infrastructure Investment Plan;
Lead scrutiny of the Just Transition Commission’s recommendations (from their final report in March...