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SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 May 2021
Key Issues for Session 6: COVID, Climate and Constitution - Integrating blue carbon into marine and climate change policy
There are currently no Marine Protected Areas designated purely or partially on the basis of protecting carbon stores, but there are opportunities for Scottish ministers to do so under the UK and Scottish Marine Acts and Climate Change legislation.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - Land use, land use change and forestry
Due to significant differences in the approach to setting out the emissions pathway for LULUCF between the CCC and the Scottish Government, it was not deemed appropriate to compare the emissions per carbon budget for LULUCF.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 October 2019
Pre Budget Report: Draft 2020/21 Budget - Reflecting the impact of expenditure across portfolios
The Committee would like to see more evidence in the Scottish Government’s Budget of the breakdown of portfolio ‘silos’ and how all Cabinet Secretaries are working together to push forward the environmental and climate change agenda.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 September 2017
Stage 1 Report on the Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (Scotland) Bill - Scope and the ethical basis of the Bill
This was due to inconsistencies with rights of animal ownership, as detailed by the Scottish GovernmentiiiEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, Official Report, 23 May 2017, Col 11 and Dr.
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 September 2025
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 10 September 2025
The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 to allow for the complaints period for people with cognitive disabilities to be extended to two years.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 September 2024
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee 18 September 2024
There are not many presumptions against forms of development in particular locations in Scottish planning; that is one of a small number.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 May 2021
Key Issues for Session 6: COVID, Climate and Constitution - Links to other policy areas
Links to other policy areas
Outcomes in several policy areas depend on a new rural policy, for example:
Climate change: the Scottish Government declared a climate emergency in Session 5.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 May 2017
Energy Policy - Transport
The Scottish Government has a 2020 target of 10% of transport fuels to be from renewables.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 December 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 06 December 2023
As no member objects, the question is, that motions S6M-11561 to S6M-11563, on approval of Scottish statutory instruments, and motions S6M-11564 and S6M-11565, on designation of lead committees, be agreed to.
Last updated:
7 March 2023
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Mary Fee: To ask the Scottish Government how its newly announced Innovation Fund will impact on air pollution and climate change targets in West Scotland.
