The Climate Change Committee, which advises the UK government, has said that Scotland’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions are “fantastic” but that the country is unlikely to achieve them.
The Scottish government has set out a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, which includes a 2030 target to reach a 75 per cent reduction from 1990s levels of emissions.
The CCC’s chief executive Chris Stark said this interim target would be “very, very difficult to meet,” without a major policy shakeup over the next decade.
