LABOUR and environment campaigners have condemned the Scottish government’s scrapping of a key climate change target of reducing carbon emissions by 75 per cent by 2030.

Shadow climate change and net zero secretary Ed Miliband said abandoning the target was “humiliating” for Scottish ministers, and Greenpeace accused the Scottish government of failing to take the action necessary to meet the target.

The target was declared “out of reach” in Holyrood last week by Scottish Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan.