For 4th Straight Year, Scotland Not Even Close On Carbon Targets - 2 M Tons This Year, 10 M Total

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Scottish ministers have been accused of “a staggering lack of ambition” after the government missed its annual climate emissions target for the fourth year running. Opposition parties said Nicola Sturgeon’s government had to start dramatically cutting CO2 emissions from transport, housing and the public sector after the latest annual statistics showed Scotland missed its emissions target by 2m tonnes equivalent (mte) of CO2.

Ministers at Holyrood said they planned to greatly increase investment in home energy efficiency by making it a national planning priority. But Richard Lochhead, the Scottish environment secretary, admitted that was a long-term plan which had yet to confirm its goals and funding.

Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Green party co-leader, said ministers had had six years to implement policies that would help achieve the legally set target of cutting Scotland’s emissions by 42% by 2020, frequently touted by Scottish National party leaders as the most ambitious in the world.

Calling on ministers to nearly double their current £119m-a-year budget for home energy efficiency, increase central planning of bus services, and abandon plans to scrap aviation passenger duty, Harvie said the decision to make home energy efficiency a national planning priority was announced months ago. “They have failed spectacularly,” he said. “Since the Climate Act was passed in 2009 we have put nearly 10 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the targets allow – demonstrating a staggering lack of ambition by this government.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/09/scotland-misses-climate-carbon-target-fourth-year

[Nihil]

1. What? You mean that setting "ambitious" targets and bragging about them isn't enough for you?

You expect us to make plans to meet them as well? And fund them?