Committee on Climate Change says nation is highly likely to miss 2030 carbon reduction goals because of lack of plans to reach them
Nicola Sturgeon has been warned Scotland’s highly ambitious climate targets are “in danger of being meaningless” because her government still has no clear plan to meet them.
The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an official advisory body, said the Scottish government would almost certainly miss its world-leading carbon reduction targets for 2030 by a substantial margin, despite Sturgeon’s repeated promises of radical action on the climate.
Despite pledging to stop the sales of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, sales of electric cars in Scotland had fallen behind England.
Scotland’s plans to rapidly decarbonise heating in buildings “were still wholly inadequate” despite recent funding increases.
Scottish ministers were failing to tackle high levels of meat and dairy consumption, key causes of CO2 emissions from farming.
Scotland was meeting only half its target to restore 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of peatland a year.
Scottish ministers were failing to work collaboratively with other UK governments on shared climate strategies.