IN A few months, representatives of over 200 countries, businesses and NGOs are expected to descend upon Glasgow’s SEC centre for the UN climate change conference.
Before then, however, the Scottish government needs to show a genuine commitment to reducing the impact of the looming climate crisis.
Time and time again the SNP has failed to deliver on its promises to tackle global warming, most recently falling short of its targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the third consecutive year.
If it is to be taken seriously in its bid for Scotland to become a global leader in climate change policy and a net-zero emissions country by 2045, then Nicola Sturgeon and the newly appointed minister for environment, biodiversity and land reform, Mairi McAllan and Kersti Berge, director for energy and climate change, need to acknowledge their responsibility to manage a sensible, managed and transformative shift to renewable energy.