Climate Change

Legislation that will see Scotland move to using five-year carbon budgets to set climate targets has been passed. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill amends the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 to introduce limits on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in Scotland o

Environmental and human rights campaigners rallied outside the Court of Session yesterday to mark the Scottish government missing a crucial deadline for compliance with the with the UN Aarhus Convention’s access to justice requirements.

Legislation to create a carbon budget approach to setting climate targets has been published. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill seeks to amend the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, in response to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) advice that Scotland’s

Greenhouse gases are destroying the maritime environment and states are legally obliged to control them, according to the opinion of an international court. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) also said that wealthy countries must reduce their emissions faster than developing o

The climate action plan devised by the UK government is unlawful, the English High Court has ruled. There is not enough evidence of policies in place that would actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the court said.

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The Scottish government is not doing enough to engage the public on climate change and Scotland’s climate change targets. This is the collective view expressed in a report published by 23 members of the public, selected at random from across Scotland, who recently came together at Holyrood to