… to the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009). Appendix 1 Climate Change – Strategic Outline Programme 13 Jan 2020 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 14 The recent Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill has brought forward the obligation on public bodies to achieve “net Zero” carbon emissions and developed…
…% lower than the 1990 baseline, Appendix 1 Climate Change – Strategic Outline Programme 13 Jan 2020 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 15 (b) 2030 is at least 75% lower than the baseline, and (c) 2040 is at least 90% lower than the baseline. (d) 2045 is net zero It is understood that all sectors, as listed above…
…, are expected to meet these targets. The 2045 scenario for net-zero has all sectors at zero, or virtually zero, emissions except for agriculture, some parts of industry, and international aviation. Remaining emissions from these sectors will need to be balanced, or outweighed, by negative emissions solutions such as tree planting and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage across the whole…