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Climate Change Bill: consultation summary report
A independent summary report analysing responses to the public consultation on Scottish Government proposals for a Climate Change Bill.
Appendix B: Suggestions for implementation of the new Bill
The table below summarises suggestions made by respondents for measures that the Scottish Government and/or Scotland’s people should implement in order to achieve what is proposed for the new Bill. These suggestions are related to actions that could be implemented to achieve emission reductions, and are therefore outside of the scope of this consultation. These suggestions are grouped thematically by sector. Some of these suggestions are also made in campaign responses (see Chapter 7). It is worth noting that respondents often made general suggestions and did not provide any further detail or rationale.
| Theme | Suggestion |
|---|---|
| Agriculture and food | Source food as locally as possible |
| Increase organic farming | |
| Protect prime agricultural land | |
| Reduce livestock farming, and meat and dairy consumption | |
| Return to bottling/canning foods instead of refrigeration | |
| Reduce food packaging | |
| Reduce consumption of exotic produce | |
| Business | Green accreditation schemes for businesses |
| Subsidies to influence business behaviour change | |
| Use local supply chains | |
| Workplace Parking Levies | |
| Economy and politics | Interventions to address disadvantage in former coalfield areas |
| Policies designed to put higher burden on more privileged people | |
| Consider using behavioural science such as the ISM model (individual, social and material) to inform policy | |
| Use Local Place Plans to facilitate community-led behaviour change | |
| Bring energy generation into the public sector | |
| Provide support for local authorities to design carbon-neutral and future-proof projects | |
| Independence from the UK and its ‘restrictive policies’ | |
| Education and culture | Increase focus of education on the dangers of climate change |
| Provide support to help consumers change their behaviours | |
| Introduce climate change storylines into TV dramas | |
| Energy | Ban hydraulic fracturing for hydrocarbons |
| Increase nuclear power generation (conventional and thorium) | |
| Increase renewables including solar, tidal, wave, hydroelectric, geothermal and biomass | |
| Invest in fusion power generation technology | |
| Decommission nuclear power plants | |
| Environment and biodiversity | New technologies to prevent birds striking wind turbines |
| Tree planting/afforestation | |
| Restoration/development of green areas and peatland | |
| Maintain investment in peatland preservation | |
| Protect hedgerows as habitat for pollinators | |
| Soil use for carbon sequestration | |
| Set a nitrogen budget for Scotland to reduce pesticide use/ban use of pesticides | |
| Use the Land Stewardship Policy to ensure soil efficiency | |
| Strengthen the Scottish Government’s Land Use Policy by increasing accountability | |
| Buildings and energy efficiency | Install heat pumps in homes |
| Combined heat and power systems for homes | |
| District heating systems to cover multiple residences | |
| Improve/retrofit insulation into homes | |
| Ensure that all homes have at least Energy Performance Rating 'C’ | |
| Build zero carbon and energy efficient housing | |
| Interest-free loans and equity-based loans for homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes | |
| Create a software tool to calculate baseline emissions of a building development and the impact of different possible measures of emission reduction | |
| Greater consideration of concrete as a building material, as its thermal mass could reduce heat loss from buildings | |
| Develop new building performance modelling tools to enable people to understand their future energy costs before purchasing a building | |
| Measures to penalise developers and designers who deliberately overstate the future performance of a building | |
| Government support for replacing existing heating systems, with clarity on the nature of the future energy network | |
| Improve building energy modelling | |
| Monitor implementation of energy efficiency measures, deferring payment of contractors pending checks | |
| Put in place a binding zero carbon standard within national building standards | |
| Technology | Invest in negative emissions technologies such as carbon capture and storage |
| Consider solutions from the Centre for Alternative Technology | |
| Transport | Increase workplace provision of showers for cyclists |
| Increase number of 20mph limited zones for safer streets | |
| Implement Low Emissions Zones in areas of high pollution | |
| Set targets for Local Authorities to spend on public transport and active travel | |
| Investment in rail infrastructure | |
| Cancel road-building projects | |
| Compensation/support mechanisms for vehicle owners to encourage modal shift to low carbon transport | |
| Increase cycle lane provision | |
| Promote electric and/or self-driving vehicles including cars, buses and trains | |
| Promote biofuel vehicles | |
| Promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles | |
| Phase out the sale of fossil fuel cars | |
| Waste and recycling | Increase recycling facilities and initiatives |
| Reduce domestic and commercial waste | |
| Increase use of biodegradable products, especially sanitary products |
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