… that the Council regards its obligation to address its impacts on climate change as continuous. Since the last Carbon Management Plan was prepared in 2012, there have been a number of international and domestic policy changes with respect to climate change. In particular, there is the UN Paris Agreement and the subsequent Scottish Government Climate Change Plan and Climate Change Bill. Moreover, the Scottish…
…. At the conference, a global agreement was made to limit the global temperature rise to 2°C by the end of the century and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C. This was termed the UN Paris Agreement and came into force on 4 November 2016. In 2009, the Climate Change (Scotland) Act was passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Act set an overall greenhouse gas emissions reduction…