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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (G) Passed, 16 March 2021 The Bill has been referred to the Supreme Court under section 33 of the Scotland Act 1998 by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland.
The Scottish Government has received advice on green recovery from their Just Transition Commission, Infrastructure Commission, and the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery.
Amnesty International noted that the Scottish Government’s forthcoming human rightsbill would seek to incorporate various additional human rights conventions into the domestic law of Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2018
The Scottish Government needs to act and it needs to back our proposed right to addictionrecoverybill. One of the actions that the minister outlined is the pilot for safe consumption rooms in Glasgow.
To be compatible with children’s rights, such situations require careful balancing of the human rights of both children, including their rights to education (Article 28 and 29), to minimise the interference with those rights.
Some of the most important work that we are undertaking at the moment is on the cost of transition. He is right that low-carbon investment needs to scale up to around £50 billion each year to deliver net zero and support the UK’s economic recovery.
In its Stage 1 report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill 2019 - now Act - the Committee also recommended that a new methodology should be developed to improve assessment of the contribution made by infrastructure investment to emissions targets.