Meeting of the Parliament 11 February 2016
The challenge that we have is that this Parliament does not have all the levers that it needs—not least in the crucial area of energy policy, in which we need the UK Government to assist Scotland’s drive to develop renewables and carbon capture and storage, and not to stymie it, as it has done recently.
We are developing a third report on policies and proposals, which will contain an assessment of the progress that has been made towards implementing policies and proposals that were set out in “Low Carbon Scotland: Meeting our Emissions Reduction Targets 2013-2027. The Second Report on Proposals and Policies”. It will include any adjustments that the Scottish ministers consider are required. It is our aim, wherever possible, to overachieve against future annual targets in order to recover the difference by which the earlier targets were missed. RPP3 will also set out proposals and policies to compensate, in future years, for excess emissions from previous annual targets.