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Climate crisis hits Holyrood as targets ditched
Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing, Economy, Net Zero and Energy Mairi McAllan makes a statement announcing a new package of climate action measures which she says we will deliver with partners to support Scotland's "just transition to net zero" alongside Scottish Green party co leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, April 18, 2024

THE climate crisis has turned into a political crisis for the SNP-Green Scottish government after it made the “the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament.”

SNP net zero secretary Mairi McAllan has announced that the government would drop its key goal of reducing carbon emissions by 75 per cent by 2030.

The move comes just weeks after the statutory climate change committee slammed the Scottish government for missing almost all its climate change targets and branded those remaining as “beyond credible.”

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