REACTION: Scottish Government “moving goalposts” on climate change target, says GJN

Date: 18 April 2024
Campaigns: Climate

Liz Murray, head of Scottish campaigns at Global Justice Now said: 

The First Minister has in the past spoken out about the catastrophic negligence of rich countries’ failure to act on climate change, so he should be totally ashamed of his own government’s failure to take the action needed to meet its own targets. But now, rather than pulling out all the stops to get things back on track, it looks like the Scottish Government is just going to move the goalposts. This is shameful.

Climate change knows no borders. People who have had little or nothing to do with causing the climate emergency, from communities in the global south to marginalised communities in Scotland, are suffering its serious effects. In a climate emergency, letting itself off the hook is the wrong thing for the Scottish Government to do, and any claims it had to global leadership on climate change now have no credibility.”