‘Route map to cut car usage in the pipeline’
With Scotland the first part of the UK to be forced to withdraw a climate change target, experts warned there could be “dangerous moments” ahead.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan last week announced a suite of new policies which will step up action to reduce emissions and which complement the ambitious measures already being taken forward this year, including but not limited to our Circular Economy Bill, currently at Stage 2; our work to decarbonise every home in Scotland, which we recently consulted on and which the CCC have said could be a blueprint for the UK; and in agriculture reform, as part of the Agriculture and Rural Communities Bill now at Stage 2.
“In Transport, the Scottish Government’s route map to reduce car usage by 20 per cent will also be published later this year. This will incentivise people to switch to electric vehicles where this is possible for them.
“Other measures include more than quadrupling the number of Electric Vehicle charging points by 2030 and developing an integrated ticketing system which can be used across public transport.
“Scotland already has the most comprehensive network of EV chargers per capita anywhere in the UK outside of London; we provide the most generous concessionary bus travel scheme in the UK and codeveloped Low Emission Zones in four cities.
“That is not to mention our completion of the world’s largest floating offshore wind leasing round in Scotwind and the confirmation, just this week, that ministers have consented Europe’s largest offshore wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast, to be jointly led by a local Aberdeen firm.”