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West Lothian Council

… The council has been committed to taking action to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change for some time. The council’s first Climate Change Strategy, the West Lothian Climate Change Strategy 2015-2020, provided a framework for change. As reported in November 2020, the council significantly exceeded its emissions reduction target of 20% from our baseline year of 2013/14, achieving…

… Goals In a drive towards a low carbon future, the Scottish Government set out ambitious emissions reductions targets in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. The targets were amended and updated in the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019, with the new goal of reducing Scotland’s emissions of all greenhouse gases to net-zero by 2045 at the latest, with interim…

… targets for reductions of at least 56% by 2020, 75% by 2030 and 90% by 2040. While challenging, these targets present Scotland with significant social and economic opportunities, and require a range of actions across society and the economy. The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 places duties on all public bodies to contribute to emission reduction targets, deliver programmes to increase…

… are balanced by those removed from the atmosphere. The Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 sets targets to reduce Scotland’s emissions of all greenhouse gases to net-zero by 2045 at the latest, with interim targets for reductions of at least 56% by 2020, 75% by 2030 and 90% by 2040 from a 1990 baseline year (with some exceptions using a 1995 baseline) . To help ensure…

… out how each segment of the building stock needs to change to meet national objectives, including achieving zero greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector, and the removal of poor energy efficiency as a driver of fuel poverty; identify heat decarbonisation zones, setting out the primary measures for reducing emissions within each zone, with a view to these zones…