Scotland's dropped climate targets ‘a fiction’, says former minister
Lorna Slater during the Scottish Green Party's General Election manifesto launch at Summerhall in Edinburgh, June 20, 2024
CLIMATE targets ditched last year were “a fiction” designed to allow the Scottish government to “pat itself on the back,” according to a former minister.
Goals to slash emissions in Scotland by 75 per cent by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050 was passed by parliament in 2019.
But Scottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater says her party “knew that those weren’t achievable targets,” despite their backing an even tougher target of 80 per cent at the time.
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