Scotland's progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions has 'largely stalled' in recent years.
As a staging post, it legislated in 2019 to cut emissions by a massive 75% from 1990 baseline levels by the end of this decade.The latest CCC report points out that since its Climate Change Act became law in 2009, the Scottish government has failed to achieved seven of the 11 legal targets.
The report describes the target to cut emissions by 75% by 2030 as "extremely challenging" and suggests a 65% to 67% cut is more feasible. But he said the Scottish government had the powers to take action on decarbonising buildings, transport and farming and had not used them. Harmful greenhouse gas emissions - which cause the earth to warm - have more than halved in Scotland in the past 30 years.
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