–As Scotland is showing, water down climate and lose your job as a politician. Yes I’m hopeful. Yousaf will do a contrite about face to stay in power.
Reporting and opinion by Mathew Carr
April 26, 2024 — Scottish leader Humza Yousaf would “come out fighting” after former allies in government, the Scottish Greens, said they would join the other opposition parties in a vote of no confidence in his leadership next week (Sky).
Sky, a week ago: The Scottish government has ditched its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030 after accepting that it is now “out of reach”.
BBC: The relationship between the two parties came to a head in the wake of the SNP Energy Secretary Mairi McAllan’s announcement last week that Scotland’s target of cutting carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels was out of reach and would be scrapped.
That sparked anger from many grassroots Green members.
BBC understands Yousaf isn’t going to resign immediately.
CarrZee: Scotland has the ability set to show the world how to decarbonize through 2030 — it can cut m ore than half of its emissions. Yousaf should try harder to meet the co2 targets…failing to hit the 75% target is better than not even trying.
UK leader Rishi Sunak is set to lose a general election to be held probably this year…after he watered down UK climate policies.
GHG-cutting ambition is now deeply soaked in social justice … voters now want social and environmental justice after years of brutality, corporate ripoffs and bad market structure.
G7 a week ago:
Leveraging private sector financing as well as innovative financing mechanisms are important steps to support energy transitions in developing countries, increase resources for adaptation and resilience and enable actions for responding to loss and damage to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, especially SIDS and LDCs.
The transition to a net zero-emissions, sustainable, climate resilient and nature positive, pollution free and circular economy will necessarily need to involve all the members of society, to ensure just and inclusive transitions, leaving no one behind. Women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples s tend to bear the brunt of climate change-related disasters. In this context, we place particular emphasis on need to empower these societal sectors and include them in efforts to address climate change and environmental degradation. We highlight the importance of nature-based solutions in this context. Plastic pollution is a global problem that requires urgent attention. We look forward to an ambitious and effective global agreement to end plastic pollution.
Biodiversity loss is an equally serious threat. Climate, biodiversity, and human health are interrelated and interdependent.
