Scotland to ditch key climate change target
by BBC News
BBC News— The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
Phys.org—Scotland is ditching its flagship 2030 climate goal—why legally binding targets really matter. The Scottish government has rescinded its 2030 target of a 75% emissions cut to greenhouse gas emissions, relative to 1990. The target was statutory, meaning it had been set in law in the Emissions Reduction Targets Act of 2019.
BBC News—Scottish government scraps climate change targets. The annual and interim climate targets will be replaced with a system measuring emissions every five years.
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