Commenting on the publication of the second Report of Proposals and Policies in Parliament today, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change Claire Baker MSP said:

“Tackling climate change is not as simple as passing legislation and hoping it all falls into place, RPP2 must address previous failings, previous missed targets and plan for the future.

“It is policy not proposals, actions not ambitions, that is needed to deliver the step change to get our country back on course.

“Today’s statement gives little reassurances that the shortcomings of the first RPP will be addressed and that the proposals offered in RPP2 will ever come into fruition.

“The Edinburgh to Glasgow improvement project has been rolled back, the Sullivan report on new building standards watered down and plans to use public subsidies to support inefficient large biomass. The Scottish Government’s rhetoric does not match its reality.”