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Good point, there is an error in the headline 🫣
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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#climatecrisis

#Scotland #ClimateChange Plan 2025-2040

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Scotgov email... Scotland's Climate Change Plan – what it means for you Scotland's draft Climate Change Plan sets out how the Scottish Government aims to support the reduction of emissions across the next 15 years; from cleaner transport and warmer homes to restoring nature and investing in renewable energy. This plan is about creating healthier places to live, lowering heating and energy bills over time, protecting and restoring nature, and building a stronger, more prosperous Scotland for current and future generations. Many people in Scotland already care deeply about climate change - 72% see it as urgent; but 36% say limited knowledge holds them back. This plan aims to make changes clearer, fairer, and easier for everyone to act on. Scotgov email.. Why consultations matter – and why your voice counts The draft Climate Change Plan consultation is open until 29 January 2026. This is your chance to help shape what Scotland will do to tackle the climate and nature crisis in a way that works for everyone. A consultation is simply a way for government to ask, "What do you think?" You don't need to be an expert and you can answer as many or as few questions as you wish. We want to hear about your experience and what matters to you. Your feedback will be carefully reviewed and used to improve the final Climate Change Plan before it's published later this year. Have your say > cover of plan photos - wind turbine, walking & cycling part of the spokes draft response... 3. Achieving traffic reduction (CCP-SA, Outcome 1) It has for some years been widely acknowledged by experts that significant traffic reduction is only achievable through a combination of carrots (infrastructure and behaviour change) and sticks (demand management, notably road user charging of some form). This was clearly summarised, back in 2020, in evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s then REC Committee, by Chris Stark, then CEO of the UK Climate Change Committee, who told MSPs that car-km reduction “will not happen unless there is a combination of carrots and sticks, and the kind of policies (in the government’s Climate Change Plan) are mainly carrots.“ Transport Scotland’s own commissioned research (completed by AECOM in 2023, but not made public by the Scottish Government until December 2024) showed it was perfectly possible to achieve the government’s then commitment to a 20% reduction in car-km by 2030, and in a “deliverable” and “equitable” way, through any one of several forms of road user charging. It is clear that Ministers were unwilling to adopt such measures, relying largely on ‘carrots,’ despite the firm expert advice that this was insufficient. Unfortunately CCP-SA (Outcome 1, p33-34) suggests this approach will continue under the new CCP unless it is considerably strengthened in terms of demand management... • The drastically eased car-km target will reduce the pressure on government and on councils for strong demand-management, since they will be able to say that the ‘traffic-reduction’ target has been achieved even though there is an increase in car-km (provided the absolute level of the increase is not so high as to break the target)
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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@edfoc.bsky.social Interestingly, the only European certified employer in Scotland seems to be Lloyds Bank
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Belgian solution given in the article is a good place to start in the short term...
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM