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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Sturgeon told Scotland’s climate targets are ‘in danger of being meaningless’

Dried out peat at a Peatland Action site at North Gairn on the Invercauld Estate in the Cairngorms National Park. Scotland
Restoring peatlands is one of the environmental objectives the Scottish government is failing on. Photograph: Lorne Gill/NatureScot/PA

Nicola Sturgeon has been warned Scotland’s highly ambitious climate targets are “in danger of being meaningless” because her government still has no clear plan to meet them.

The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an official advisory body, said the Scottish government would almost certainly miss its world-leading carbon reduction targets for 2030 by a substantial margin, despite Sturgeon’s repeated promises of radical action on the climate.

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