International charity with roots in Lanarkshire stands in solidarity with world s poorest people
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Alistair Dutton: Those in the furnace of climate emergency are in danger of being left out in the cold at COP26
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But how do the commitments in Scotland s iNDC measure up against the action that we need? In 2019, Scotland set some of the most ambitious climate targets in the world, pledging by 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 75 per cent.
Meeting these goals requires urgent and significant changes to any ‘business as usual’ approach. Earlier this year, the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Michael Matheson, made this clear when he announced that Scotland had missed its climate emissions targets for the last three years and ordered a catch-up report to be delivered within six months.
Wildfires rage around Lake Oroville, California, in September last year (Picture: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)