Scotland's draft Climate Change Plan 2026-2040: business and regulatory impact assessment

Section 5: Next steps and implementation

Recommendations/preferred options

It is recommended that the draft Climate Change Plan is laid in Parliament to comply with the statutory requirements under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

Implementation considerations/plan

Each individual policy contained within the draft Climate Change Plan has its own implementation consideration and plan which will accompany each policy as they are published.

Post implementation review

The draft Climate Change Plan contains a monitoring and evaluation framework for consultation and when published will provide an update to the existing Climate Change Plan monitoring and evaluation policies. This will form the basis for the post-implementation review of the progress against the policies collected within the draft Climate Change Plan and the pathway the draft Climate Change Plan sets out to achieve.