Climate Change Delivery Plan: Meeting Scotland's Statutory Climate Change Targets.

This Climate Change Delivery Plan: Meeting Scotland's Statutory Climate Change Targets (2009) (the Delivery Plan) sets out how the Scottish Government plans to achieve the statutory emission targets established by the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (the Act). The Delivery Plan identifies: the key sectors for abatement; the high level measures required in each sector to deliver the interim 2020 targets; the four transformational outcomes required by 2030 to put Scotland on the right track to meet its 2050 target; milestones, actions, barriers and risks around implementation; where the policy levers sit, e.g. at EU, UK or Scottish Government levels.
The Delivery Plan is structured as follows: Chapter 2 provides an overview of the key sectors for abatement, highlighting the importance of the “traded sector” and the sectoral contributions required from key areas within the non-traded sector to meet targets in 2020. A table summarising the key measures, milestones and actions across all the sectors is produced at the end of this chapter. Chapters 3-7 cover each of the main sectors in more detail: Electricity Demand and Supply; Heat Demand and Supply; Transport; Rural Land Use (agriculture, forestry and other land management); Waste. The four transformational outcomes which the Scottish Government is working towards are: 1) A largely de-carbonised electricity generation sector by 2030, primarily using renewable sources for electricity generation with other electricity generation from fossil fuelled plants utilising carbon capture and storage; 2) A largely de-carbonised heat sector by 2050 with significant progress by 2030 through a combination of reduced demand and energy efficiency, together with a massive increase in the use of renewable or low carbon heating; 3) Almost complete decarbonisation of road transport by 2050 with significant progress by 2030 through wholesale adoption of electric cars and vans, and significant decarbonisation of rail by 2050; 4) A comprehensive approach to ensure that carbon (including the cost of carbon) is fully factored into strategic and local decisions about rural land use through appropriate protection for Scotland’s carbon rich soils, minimising emissions from agricultural and other land use businesses, encouraging the sequestration of carbon through woodland planting, and the use of natural resources to generate renewable energy.
A final, Next Steps chapter sets out what the Scottish Government will do over the next 12 months, at the end of which, as required by the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill, the Government will produce a Report on Proposals and Policies, setting out in more detail the measures to be delivered to meet Scotland’s annual emissions reduction targets up to 2022.