http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-22813126
Paul Wheelhouse (Minister who spoke at PoP) said on Radio Scotland -
'Disappointing' 'realise still have to do a lot in areas like transport'.
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"Scottish targets for climate change missed"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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In the meantime his superior Mr Broon is busy building bypasses and dualling every A-road he can find.
And we wonder why? (Well, "we" don't, the BBC might.)
Posted 12 years ago # -
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Paul Wheelhouse, the environment minister, said the government faced a tougher challenge in hitting the 2020 target as previous carbon data had been revised, meaning Scotland must achieve a 44 per cent reduction instead. At present, carbon is falling by 9.9 per cent year on year.
“Despite changes to the historical data on emissions making this year’s target harder to achieve, we have come within touching distance of it, and the revised targets mean we will all need to focus our efforts in the future to stay on course,” he said.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotland-fails-to-hit-climate-change-targets-1-2959502
Posted 12 years ago # -
Not pretending that cycle training in schools (Bikeability) is 'the answer' to Climate Change, but it really doesn't help when the Scottish Government gives money to Cycling Scotland to give to local authorities to 'mentor' schools delivering cycle training, but doesn't allow the money to be spent on delivering the training.
All schools are different. Some manage to find volunteers (usually parents) but they are unlikely to do it often enough to gain any realistic amount of experience/competence.
Increasingly schools are using staff, who have to be covered for when they are away on the training course and when they are delivering (unless it's their own class).
Not entirely satisfactory and unlikely to be cost effective compared with bringing in experienced trainers who deliver many times a year.
Additionally SG/CS only seem to care about numbers of children who have done Bikeability 2 (this should include on-road training).
There doesn't seem to be enough attention paid to the quality of training or an effective mechanism for monitoring consistency.
Posted 12 years ago #
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