This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
On 30 October John Mayhew mentioned that the visitor economy alone in Scottish National Parks returns far more than the Scottish Government investment in both Scottish National Parks annually.
(S5O-03912) 7. Donald Cameron: To ask the Scottish Government whether 100% of homes and businesses in the Highlands and Islands will be able to access superfast broadband by 2021.
Scrutiny in a climate and nature emergency – engaging with disruptive change
Alexa Morrison, Niall Kerr and Abbi Hobbs, Senior Researchers, Environment and Climate Change
Climate change is considered by some to be the ‘biggest threat that modern humans have ever faced’.
Climate Assemblies
Citizens' assemblies have also been proposed as a way of generating public policy innovation and consensus for global challenges such as the climate emergency.
I will open with a general question about what has been done to date with the Scottish Government’s approach. How well has the Scottish Government’s approach to encouraging low-carbon farming practices—for example, in the farming for a better climate programme—worked to date?
In the Maggie Gill report, the second recommendation for the Scottish Government is: “Aquaculture (as for land-based food production) is an industry that has environmental impacts and is susceptible to climate change.
Climate Change Plan
The Climate Change Plan update was laid in the Scottish Parliament in December 2020; it provides an update to the Scottish Government's previous plan, published in 2018.