WHEN the Scottish Greens joined the Scottish Government in 2021 we accelerated action on the climate crisis.
Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater visit the site of a new solar farm at the University of EdinburghWe expanded free bus travel to children and young people, introduced the most generous grants in the UK for clean heat, and massively increased investment in restoring Scotland’s natural environment, recycling, and in cycling and walking infrastructure.
For decades Scottish Greens have called for urgent, transformative action across the world, the UK and in Scotland. It will also see a new route map developed and published in the autumn to help cut our dependency on cars, including by supporting the roll-out of traffic management measures like congestion charging, which have been shown in places like London to be vital to creating modern, green cities that are easy to move around.It’s constructive, grown-up politics in action. But there are limits to what we can achieve as a devolved government within the UK.
They cannot insist on climate action one minute, only to oppose those very same measures the next. We on the other hand have chosen to embrace the CCC’s recommendations from carbon budgets to taking on the biggest challenges before us, because that is the best and fastest way forward. We remain constrained on what further action we can take because we do not have the powers of an independent country and frustratingly, debilitatingly remain shackled to a wasteful UK Government that is pulling in the opposite direction on climate.
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