The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, in the wake of the Climate Change Committee’s advice that Scotland’s interim emissions reduction target for 2030 is beyond what can be achieved. This built upon repeated advice from the CCC that meeting the 2030 target set by Parliament would be extremely challenging.
As with all Bills, the Finance and Public Administration Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out in its accompanying Financial Memorandum (FM).
Read the FM for this Bill: Financial Memorandum.
The Committee's call for views closed on 20 September 2024.
The Committee received 6 submissions to its call for views. Read the submissions on Citizen Space.
The Committee agreed to write to the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee to highlight issues raised in the Committee's call for views to that Committee to explore during its scrutiny of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill: