Committee on Climate Change

In February this year the Committee provided advice to the Scottish Government on a fair and safe cumulative emissions budget for Scotland over 2010-2050.

Shortly after, Scottish Ministers wrote to the Committee asking for advice on targets specifically for 2023-2027, as well as on the use of credits for 2013 – 2017.

The Committee has responded in a letter to Stewart Stevenson, Scotland’s Minster for Environment and Climate Change, recommending a series of annual targets that reflect a halving of Scottish emissions by 2025 and a 60% reduction by 2030, relative to 1990. This was followed by a further letter providing additional information relating to the impacts of emission targets and details of the target setting methodology.

In developing the advice, the Committee commissioned an update to the emission projection tool for Scotland (the STEPS model). The final report can be found here.

The Scottish Government will set out secondary legislation later in the year on both the proposed level of annual targets for 2023-2027 and on the use of credits for 2013-2017.