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Reacting to the latest news, the outgoing chief executive of the Climate Change Committee Chris Stark told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme it doesn't matter what sort of government is in place as long as climate change policies are implemented.
“What I would note is that the period that we’re in now is the first time in any part of the UK that we’ve had to see a piece of climate legislation with targets removed," he said.
“So the recent period is, I’m afraid, a pretty dark one for Scottish climate policy.”
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Times get more interesting, not entirely in a good way.
Both parties will suffer and benefit - how much remains to be seen!
Greens have the chance to be more coherent/ambitious without having to worry about ‘compromise’. Need credible plans for energy (including “transition”), farming/fishing/food, land use/planning/housing, transport, education, health - MUCH more emphasis on ‘prevention rather than fixing’, and more.
‘The public’, quite reasonably, care about ‘making ends meet’, ‘standard of living’ etc.
But also - increasingly - about what is traditionally called “the environment”.
To what extent that’s ‘nature’, ‘wildlife’, ‘predictable weather’, ‘high welfare cheap food’, decent housing, better transport, etc. etc is constantly changing.
I think there is an increasing realisation that ‘more of everything, without any downsides’, is no sort of reality.
How much that will affect people’s daily actions and periodic voting is harder to predict.
The SNP will still concentrate (partly) on Independence.
The Scottish Greens don’t have to. I don’t mean they will decide they are not in favour, but it won’t be a headline priority.
Better to concentrate on improving local governance/actions.
More money available locally (for existing LAs - with plans to reform them - but also Community Councils, Community Development Trusts etc etc).
Stuff that could make noticeable differences to more people and places.
The SNP has many problems, including the coming GE. The Greens should look firmly at next Holyrood election.
Humza now holding press conference says ‘BHA achieved things but it it’s reached its end’.
‘Looking to work with all MSPs’
‘AND tackling the Climate Emergency’.
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