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Climate Change Plan Monitoring Reports 2021 Compendium

The first annual statutory monitoring report against the updated 2018 Climate Change Plan, as per the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019.

This annual monitoring report is the first to report against the Climate Change Plan update (CCPu) as finalised in March 2021. It follows on from the two monitoring reports published on progress to the 2018 Climate Change Plan

The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (as amended by the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019), is the toughest, most ambitious legislative framework on climate change in the world. The 2019 Act increased the ambition of Scotland’s already world-leading targets in response to the global climate emergency and UN Paris Agreement, now committing Scotland to a 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and to reaching net-zero by 2045.

The CCPu responds to these challenging targets, updating the 2018 Climate Change Plan to set an ambitious pathway to 2032 and including 100 new policies and proposals across all sectors, as well as the ambition of over 40 existing policies scaled up.

The CCPu sends a clear statement of intent, providing greater certainty for all parts of society to contribute further to mitigating climate change. However, at this stage, there remain significant uncertainties, including the pace of technological advances, the limits of the devolved settlement, and we also need to ensure a just transition. As a result, the CCPu commits to an iterative ‘learning by doing’ approach, and the annual monitoring reports are a key means of ensuring this.

The 2019 Act also placed the monitoring framework for the Climate Change Plan on to a statutory footing for the first time, with sector by sector reports on progress and the inclusion of matters relevant to a just transition. This is the first set of monitoring reports on the Climate Change Plan to be published since the 2019 Act was commenced in March 2020, as well as the first to reflect the updated policy content of the CCPu which was agreed by Scottish Ministers in March 2021. Furthermore, in line with the commitments in the CCPu to include a greater level of monitoring detail, the reports also include an assessment of progress against each of the individual policies and proposals (Part C in each sector chapter).

Climate Change Plan Monitoring Reports 2021 Compendium 215 page PDF 1.4 MB

 

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