Meeting of the Parliament 12 March 2014
Local authorities appear to be somewhat uncertain and confused about what they are meant to do to achieve EU air quality values. It is easy to diagnose the problems but difficult to know what measures to take to solve them. That uncertainty must be cleared up and local authorities’ role must be made clearer. They should play a key role in ensuring that air quality action plans have a much more significant impact on problems.
We welcome today’s focus on air quality and we urge ministers to work closely with our local authorities and all other stakeholders to implement practical measures to tackle the most alarming occurrences of poor air quality in Scotland.
I move amendment S4M-09294.1, to leave out from “highlights” to end and insert:
“regrets that, despite repeatedly missing its own statutory emissions reduction targets, the Scottish Government has failed to produce a draft Report on Policies and Proposals 2 that is fit for purpose; recognises that, if it continues on this path, Scotland will fail to reduce carbon emissions by 42% by 2020, and calls on the Scottish Government to work closely with local authorities to ensure that action is taken to tackle air pollution in Scotland and to ensure that policy coherence is implemented across all Scottish Government directorates.”
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