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John Glover

Michael Matheson pledges to maximise public funding to accelerate plans to tackle climate change

Energy and Net Zero Secretary Michael Matheson has pledged to maximise the use of public funding to accelerate the delivery of plans to tackle climate change.

The Resource Spending Review, published this week, committed the Scottish Government to increase spending on heat in buildings, active travel and peatland and woodland restoration.

Capital spending on programmes will also increase by over half a billion pounds over the next three years, to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience across Scotland.

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