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Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024

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Part 1: Emissions Reduction Targets
Chapter 1: Modification of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009
Sections 3 to 8: Climate change plan
Background: meaning of climate change plan
Section 5: Content of plan: contribution of policies to meeting targets

52.Section 5 of the Act modifies section 35 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 in relation to the information that a climate change plan must contain.

53.Subsection (5) of section 35 of the 2009 Act requires that a climate change plan break down the expected contributions to meeting emissions reduction targets that will be made by different sectors listed in subsection (3) of the section (for example, the energy-supply sector and the agricultural sector). Section 5 of the Act amends section 35(5) of the 2009 Act to create a further requirement for climate change plans to include a breakdown of the expected contribution to meeting emissions reduction targets that will be made by groups of associated policies. It will be for the authors of a plan to group associated policies, but an example may be a collection policies connected by the common theme of “active travel”.

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