Scotland's Climate Change Plan 2026-2040: strategic environmental assessment

Footnotes

1 Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 – legislation.gov.uk

2 Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 – legislation.gov.uk

3 Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024 – legislation.gov.uk

4 The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (Scottish Carbon Budgets) Amendment Regulations 2025 – legislation.gov.uk

5 Scotland's Carbon Budgets - Climate Change Committee – theccc.org.uk

6 Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005 – legislation.gov.uk

7 NatureScot, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and Historic Environment Scotland.

8 Scotland's draft Climate Change Plan: 2026-2040: strategic environmental assessment - environmental report - gov.scot

9 Scotland's Climate Change Plan – 2026-2040 - EQIA - gov.scot

10 Scotland's Climate Change Plan – 2026-2040 - FSDA - gov.scot

11 Scotland's Climate Change Plan – 2026-2040 - ICIA - gov.scot

12 Scotland's Climate Change Plan – 2026-2040 - BRIA - gov.scot

13 Scotland's Climate Change Plan – 2026-2040 - CRWIA - gov.scot

14 Published responses for Draft Climate Change Plan – Citizen Space, Scottish Government – consult.gov.scot

15 Scotland's draft Climate Change Plan 2026-2040: consultation analysis - gov.scot

16 Securing a green recovery on a path to net zero: climate change plan 2018–2032 - update - gov.scot

17 Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report - gov.scot

18 Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Update to the Climate Change Plan 2018-203: Environmental Report - gov.scot

19 Scotland - State of Nature - 2023 - stateofnature.org.uk

20 Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee Report on the Draft Climate Change Plan - parliament.scot

21 Rural Affairs and Islands Committee Report on the draft Climate Change Plan as it relates to agriculture and land use - parliament.scot

22 Scotland's draft Climate Change Plan 2026-2040: consultation analysis - gov.scot

23 A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland - gov.scot

24 A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland – Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) - gov.scot

26 Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005. Section 19. Monitoring of implementation of qualifying plans and programmes. Available at: Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005 (accessed 08/04/2026).

27 Nitrogen Balance Sheet - Climate change - gov.scot

28 Section 9 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 – legislation.gov.uk