The country’s climate progress is under the spotlight after stats for 2022 showed just a 0.1 per cent fall in net greenhouse gas emissions on the previous year - although there’s been a 50 per cent drop since 1990.The yearly benchmarks - used to track Scotland’s climate progress - are set to be controversially scrapped by the Scottish Government along with a key 2030 emissions target.
Lewis Ryder-Jones, Oxfam Scotland’s Advocacy Adviser, said: "This ninth failure in 13 years proves that, once again, team Scotland has lost momentum in the highest stakes match in town. Caroline Rance, of Friends of the Earth Scotland, hit out: “These climate targets were based on science, and they all should and could have been met.
He claimed it “reflects the ongoing absence of strong climate action by both Holyrood and Westminster governments”. "The impacts of climate change on people’s lives, nature and the economy are becoming increasingly visible both here in Scotland and in the world’s poorest countries, where those least responsible for causing it are unfairly bearing the cost of its worst effects.”