Scottish Parliament Elections 2021 - What are the parties promising on climate change & the environment?

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The 2021 Scottish Parliament election is just a week away. Yesterday we revealed what the election priorities are of the young people we asked are - and it should come as no surprise that we are overwhelmingly concerned by how the next Scottish Government will act on climate change.

So, what do the parties standing for election have to say on this? Our Policy subgroup have scoured their manifestos so you don’t have to, and summarised everything we’ve found below. It’s broken down into sections - so if you are particularly interested in energy policy, for example, you can scroll down and compare what parties have to say on that side-by-side.

2050 Climate Group regularly responds to government consultations. All these responses are based on the views of young people that we speak to and survey. Where we have taken policy positions on particular topics, a summary of what we have said is included in the table below for comparison.

We have only featured the manifestos of the 5 parties who had MSPs elected at the previous election, as we deemed that the fairest way of determining who to feature. Other parties and independent candidates are also likely standing in your area - you can find out who they are using this handy website. You get two votes in the Additional Member System used to elect MSPs - a constituency vote to chose who represents your local area, and a regional vote to chose 7 MSPs to represent your region. Here’s a short video guide on how this election system works.

We have sections on (in order of appearance):

• Transport

• Energy

• Buildings

• Industry

• Waste & the Circular Economy

• Land use & forestry

• Agriculture & Food

• Reaching Net-Zero

• Climate justice & international issues

Sector	Category	2050 Climate Group's previous policy asks	Conservatives	Greens	Labour	Lib Dems	SNP
Transport	Active Travel	Infrastructure investment to create walking and cycling networks (urban and nationally). Expand cycling social enterprises and low cost bike hire schemes to make active travel accesible. Improve bike parking in urban areas and implement segregated, surfaced cycle paths.	- Increase active travel budget to 10% of transport budget - Encourage Councils to increase low traffic neighbourhoods, bus and bike only roads, school streets and low emission zones where benificial - Establish a commuting cycle network in every Scottish city by the end of the next Parliament - Invest £1 million in cycle proficiency training for adults and cycle repair vouchers	- Immediately increase the active travel budget to at least £320m. - Re-orient towns and cities towards pedestrians, cyclists and vulnerable road users - Make 15-minute neighbourhoods a key principle in Scotland’s Planning Policy Framework.	- Increase active travel spending to 10% of the overall transport budget. - Feasibility studies to establish a network of mobility hubs across Scotland to assist in promoting active and green travel. - Deliver an active travel plan with enforceable targets for cycling and walking levels, to include a survey of condition and funding of maintenance of the path network.	- Decarbonise commuting through more support for e-bikes - Double the share of the budget spent on active travel - Plan for every child to have cycling proficiency tests by the end of primary school, and offer them to adults	- Spend 10% of capital transport budget on walking, cycling and wheeling - Make loans and grants available for bike purchase and repair -Create and improve segregated walking and cycling networks
	Public Transport	Prioritise public transport spending by electrifying railways and bus fleets, creating urban bus lanes to reduce delays, and improve onboard services such as bike and luggage storage. Make public transport more accessible by subsidising ticket prices and introducing an integrated ticket system.	- Reopen rail lines & stations where economically sensible - Electrify more railway lines - Develop transition strategy for future hydrogen/electric bus investment - Reform fares & introduce flexible <5 day commuting ticket	- Extend free bus travel for everyone under 26 - Introduce new Scottish Railcard for those ineligible for existing Railcard schemes. - £22bn investment in Scotland’s railways - Electrify the bus fleet	- Electrify & decarbonise the railways within 15 years. - Bring all Scottish rail services into public ownership, with seat on the board for trade unions. - A review of the branch rail network, seeking to increase rail connectivity between our smaller towns and villages. - Introduce free bus travel to under-25s, with  universal free bus travel as a long-term goal. - Invest in the manufacture and widespread introduction of accessible low-emission buses, including hydrogen buses. - Bus services to go back into public hands with start-up resources for councils to run them. - Rural bus routes are expanded to ensure a regular, affordable service for those who rely on it. - Deliver an affordable, integrated public transport system with a smart ticket system.	- Extend free bus travel for young people to include ferry links - Create single through-tickets and swipe cards that work for buses, trains and ferries across Scotland - Reopen railway lines and move away from fossil fuels on the network - New local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services.	- £500m investment improving bus infrastructure & £120m on Zero Emission Buses - Free bus travel for under 22s - Community Bus Fund to support local services - Decarbonise rail travel by 2035
	Roads & Private vehicle	Shift away from private car usage and towards public transport - particularly in cities - by implementing measures such as low emission zones, reduced parking, increased pedestrianisation and car sharing.	- Subsidise public, at home, and at work electric vehicle charging points - Require all new large developments to include charging points - Continue subsiding electric vehicle purchases    - Invest in hydrogen-powered infraststructure and carry out feasibility study on "hydrogen network' between Aberdeen and Inverness - Upgrade A1 to dual carriageway, extend M8 to three lanes - Invest £200 million in Road Maintenance Fund	- Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2026. - 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas - Cease funding road building projects - Introduce workplace parking levies, congestion charging and parking charges	- Interest-free government loans to help more low and middle income households to buy EVs. - Planning system in urban areas for less car use, making all residential areas low traffic neighbourhoods. - Consult on changing the default speed limit on restricted roads to 20 mph. - Accelerate the roll-out of electric charging points with an initial focus on areas with the least access, and explore siting a gigafactory in Scotland to build the batteries for EVs. - Support the expansion of car clubs across Scotland. - Create a fund to finance the repair of our essential road and path network. - Improve and enhance key routes such as the A83. - Abolish the workplace parking levy.	- Help people get around the high initial cost of electric vehicles by using car clubs in more places - Change town planning processes to ensure separate spaces for walkers, cyclists, and motorists	- Phase out new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, two years ahead of target - Reduce ‘car kilometres’ by 20% by 2030 - Low Emission Zones in Scotland's cities
	Aviation	Halt aviation expansion and discourage flying through taxation measures. Maintain access to Scotland's remote and island areas through decarbonisation of flights and ferries.	- Use public service obligations or subsidy of airport charges if Scotland's key routes are under threat	- Replace air passenger duty with a frequent flyer levy (not affecting H&I flights) - Subsidise fares for longer distance rail travel from Scotland to England	- Work with the UK Government to ensure that routes are reopened. - Targeted support package for the industry which will be tied to commitments to support jobs, and good terms and conditions within the sector. - A commitment from the industry that any support will be predicated on reducing CO2 emissions and combating the climate emergency.	- Seek to limit air travel outside of lifeline routes and those with no alternative - Replace Air Passenger Duty with a Frequent Flyer Levy - Ensure that private jet passengers pay rates that reflect their impacts - Stop parking charges in H&I airports	- Work with the sector to help it recover and rebuild connectivity for business and tourism - Continue to work to pilot low or zero emission planes between Scotland’s islands
	Other / Overall	More ambitious changes are needed to create a sustainable transport system that is affordable, accessble and efficient. Smart ticket systems that integrate diffrent modes of public transport are needed to encourage public transport usage over cars both within and between cities.	- Scrap Caledonian Maritime Assets and introduce long-term contracts for ferry operators	- Develop a green ferry fleet replacement strategy - Support smart ticketing across Scotland for all public transport	- Full review of ferry services in Scotland to ensure that the right vessels are on the right routes at the right time. - Develop a new strategy to upgrade our ports and ensure that repair and maintenance of Scotland’s ferries happens in Scotland - Ferry travel should also be free for under 25s. - Case to legislate for national standards to guarantee safety and accessibility for taxis and private hire. - Expand the implementation of low emission zones in Scotland, and explore the implementation of minimum air quality standards around our schools. - Implement a gendered approach to transport infrastructure, ensuring women’s safety, convenience and affordability are properly addressed.	Insist on a Fatal Accident Inquiry for each pedestrain death and require regional transport authorities to take remedial action	- Invest in more sustainable ferries - Press UK Gov to commit to faster rail connections from England - Support development of Edinburgh’s tram and Glasgow’s subway systems
Energy	Oil and Gas	A prompt and unhesitant transition is required to phase out oil and gas extractions. Local economies and workers require support to transition into green jobs and towards renewable energy.	- Make sure the transition to a renwable Scotland is fair and creates opportunities - North Sea oil and gas has a long future with petrochemicals used in plastics, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals - Ensure Scottish Government is a partner in the North Sea Transition Deal - Opposed to fracking in Scotland	- Stop issuing new licenses for oil and gas exploration and development - End subsidies / tax breaks for oil and gas - Ban importation of shale and fracked gas for processing in Scotland	-Supporting Scotland’s fabrication and decommissioning industries in the North Sea by requiring a proportion of local procurement from oil companies operating in the UK Continental Shelf region.	- Plan for the inevitiable end of oil and gas by getting the transition right, accepting that fossil fuel demand will end almost completely - Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industry	- Using independence powers, ring fencing revenues from oil and gas in a Net Zero Fund - £62m Energy Transition Fund to support energy sector diversification - £15m next year for retraining workers - No support for fracking
	Renewable Energy	Low carbon energy sources such as heat pumps and pumped hydro storage are supported. Strongly support increased renewable energy source usage including onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydro, and marine renewables	- Keep Scotland at the forefront of UK offshore wind sector - Expand onshore wind capacity in Scotalnd - Incentivise the creation of a wind turbine decommissioning centre - Support emerging technology such as tidal - Further green hydrogen as a transport fuel source and means of exporting hydrogen - Expand Scotland's pumped hydroelectric storage	- Commit to restoring the role of onshore wind in Scotland. - Source at least 70% of the onshore wind supply chain domestically. - Encourage at least 20% of new windfarms to be owned by the community	-Establish the Scottish Energy Development Agency to coordinate the growth in renewable energy production including in skills and training - Only approve new developments for offshore wind farmswhen a plan for supply chain manufacturing was in place and conditions on job creation in Scotland were met. - Support genuinely community and cooperatively owned local renewable energy projects such as the Edinburgh Community Solar Co-operative	- Target for 100% of energy generated in Scotland to come from renewables by 2030 - Set a principle of "100% renewable electricity for 100% of the time"	- Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production capacity of at least 5GW by 2030 - 50% renewable energy generation by 2030, almost full decarbonisation by 2050 - Carbon Neutral Islands in at least 3 location by 2040 - Global Renewable Centre to aid knowledge exchange with Global South
	CCS	Recognise the role of carbon capture and storage but concerned about overreliance and using this as an excuse to continue using fossil fuels	- Expands Scotland's carbon capture capacity	- Oppose public investment in CCS - Oppose reliance on bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS)	- Investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure would deliver construction and engineering jobs across Scotland		- Ensure that the Scottish industry plays a leading role in development and deployment of CCUS
Buildings	Energy efficiency	Create ambitious standards for energy efficiency in all buildings.	- £2.5 billion over five years on energy efficiency in homes and buildings - 'Help to Renovate' scheme to support property owners to increase energy efficiency - 'Rural Transition Fund' to support energy efficiency in off grid areas	- Ensure that all homes reach a minimum Energy Performance Standard C or above by 2030 - aim for heating homes to be zero carbon by 2040	- Upgrade all homes to at least an energy efficiency rating of C or higher by 2030 and, where possible, zero carbon by 2045 - Establish a national housing agency to work closely with local authorities and coordinate the roll out of measures including insulation, double glazing, boiler replacement, forms of renewable heat, and heat networks - Support the national smart meter rollout	- An intiial five-year programme that will improve energy efficiency of 80,000 homes per year' - Move one million homes to zero emission heating by 2030. - invest in low-carbon heat networks, including the potential for connecting whole towns - introduce energy efficiency regulations to require landlords to meet higher energy standards wihtin five years - make district heating the normal choice for new devleopments - Bring forward an Energy Efficiency and Zero Carbon Bill to underpin a new zero carbon homes strategy	- Require new buildings to use renewable or zero-carbon heating from 2024, and decarbonisation of heating of 1 million homes by 2030 - New homes by social landlords and LAs will be zero emission by 2026 - £95m investment in decarbonisation of public sector estate - New dedicated national public energy agency
	Fuel Poverty	The transition to low carbon buildings could exasperate inequalities and come with initial costs. Prioritise supporting low-income households to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.		- Introduce green heat grants for households to replace fossil fuel boilers with green alternatives (Grants will be available)	- Low and middle income households would be awarded grant funding while other households would be offered interest free loans to pay for the upgrades, up to the value of £18,000. Fuel poor and rural homes would be targeted first - New Energy Efficiency Scotland Bill including elimnation of energy poverty by 2032, with strict interimn targets. - New definition of fuel poverty that includes an uplift for rural communities and a minimum standard of energy efficiency in private rented sector housing of an EPC rating of at least C by 2025	- Double the programmes to end fuel poverty.	- Review energy standards to help remove poor energy efficiency as a driver of fuel poverty
Industry	Fossil Fuel Divestment	Halt fossil fuel extraction and divest from fossil fuels. Recognise the role of carbon capture and storage but concerned about overreliance and using this as an excuse to continue using fossil fuels. Support geothermal energy and 'green' hydrogen as future fuels.		- Heating homes to be zero carbon by 2040 - End public subsidies for oil and LPG boilers, and instead fund renewable and low carbon heating technologies			- £60m investment to decarbonise industrial and manufacturing sectors with aim of net zero by 2040 - Remove fossil fuel buses by 2023 and decarbonise rail by 2035 - Government oil and gas support conditional upon industry contribution to green energy transition
	Low Carbon Technologies	Support community energy and district heating networks. Funds are required to help develop technologies such as fuel cells, heat pumps and geothermal energy.		- Oppose public investment in CCS and BECCS - Withdraw support for hydrogen produced from fossil fuels - £450 million investment in renewables - £3bn in warm and zero-carbon homes and buildings	- Worker’s Ownership Fund to enhance support for cooperative and employeeowned businesses in the low-carbon economy. - The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) should enable an increase in the scale of low-cost capital available to forms of low carbon infrastructure. For example, supporting the steel industry in transitioning to electric furnaces.	- Review and improve the Community Wind Benefit Scheme to make it easier for more communities to recieve a share of the profits of wind generation - Give Scottish workers given the best chance to manufacture offshore wind turbines.	- Energy Transition Scotland programme ensuring Scottish industry leads development and deployment of marine renewables, hydrogen, and CCUS - 50% renewable energy generation by 2030, almost full decarbonisation by 2050
	Public sector contracts & Procurement		- Use public procurement to incentivise delivery of environmental and circular economy targets - 'Scotland First' approach to procuring goods and services with public money - Blacklist companies that fail to pay supply chains on time	- Use public procurement to require firms to recognise trade unions, ban precarious contracts, pay the real living wage - Use public procurement contracts to support local sustainable food producers and support the transition to a circular economy - oblige public kitchens to source food from more small local businesses and organic producers	- Better Business Scotland certification we will ensure that every business that wants to work with the public sector has a clear carbon reduction plan and a commitment to achieving net zero - Scottish Labour would adopt a local first approach to procurement, reducing carbon emissions by ensuring goods and services are procured locally. - Scottish National Investment Bank would invest to help existing companies diversify or support the creation of new local supply chains.	- Use circular economy principles for public sector procurement - Overhaul public sector procurement policies to support local supplier	- Community Wealth Building Act, requiring LAs and public bodies to spend within local communities
Waste & the Circular Economy	Waste	Waste reduction and circular economy principles should be prioritised. Energy generation from waste should be used where waste production is unavoidable. Local and smaller scale food production should be considered in order to reduce waste.	- Work with UK government to align Scotlands Deposit Return Scheme with the rest of the UK - Keep Scottish Landfill Tax rates at parity with the rest of the UK - £25 million Cleaner Seas Fund to remove harmful products from our seas - Increase fixed penalties and maximum fines for litter and fly-tipping	- Replace landfill tax with a local waste disposal tax to disincentivise incineration and waste exports - Oppose the construction of new incinerators	- Polycarbonate ban and require food manufacturers and retailers to reduce waste - New litter strategy that addresses the defects in the current system, prioritises community education, commits to investment in infrastructure and reviews the barriers to enforcement.	Aim to end the mainstream use of single-use plastics.	- Ambitious Deposit Return Scheme for single use drinks containers next year - Take action to ban single use plastic cutlery, plates, straws, balloon sticks, food and beverage containers - Blue Economy Action Plan to reduce marine pollution
	Circular Economy	Set targets for creating a zero-waste circular economy that encourages reduced consumption. Create cross-government policy to support this vision.	- Work with businesses to creat jobs in a circular economy - Circular Economy Bill to set new targets for reducing raw material usage    - Invest in recycling capacity and fund a Centre for Circular Economy Cexcellence - Establish a Circular Economy Awards Scheme to recognise innovation	- Phase out pointless plastics, including single-use, non-essential plastics - all packaging and products sold in Scotland must be able to be reused, repaired, or recycled	- Circular Economy Bill and obligations on the producers of waste and annual material flow accounts - Deposit return schemes and regulatory action to eliminate plastic cigarette filters, as well as supporting global campaigns to tackle abuses in the global fashion supply chain - Instigate a moratorium and a review of what place large scale incineration has in our zero waste plans for the future - Expand water fountains for refilling bottles, better access to water in schools and reform of Scottish Water	- Create a duty to produce a Resource Reduction Plan - New targets for repurposing, repair, and reuse to drive manufacturers towards system change - Set ambitious targets for the collection of post-consumer textiles - Build infrastructure, and the implementation of measures to encourage the fashion industry to increase the recycled fibre content in fabrics and yarns - Commitments from industries along with major public sector resource consumers to adopt circular economy approaches and reduce waste and environmental impact	- Bring forward Circular Economy Bill - Create a fund for innovation in tackling textile pollution and throw-away culture
Land-use	Forestry	-	- Increase annual tree planting to 18,000 hectares by 2024-25. - Increase planting of native species, while ensuring our forests are productive. - Work with construciton sector to increase use of timber for building - Emphasise protecting and reversing the decline in Atlantic woodlands	- Increase forested areas in Scotland to 40% (from 18%) with at least 60% of this to be native woodland - Additional £200m available to grow Scotland's National Forests (50,000 ha equivalent)	- Plant at least 15,000 hectares of trees a year - Establish a Scottish Conservation Corps that could employ up to 10,000 people dedicated to restoring Scotlands natural environment.	- Expand woodland using at least 50 per cent native species, - Increase Scotland's forest cover by an additional 36 million trees every year - Set a national target that 30 per cent of all publicly owned land should be used for rewilding	- Increase targets for new woodland creation by 50% per year by 2025 - Additional funding for Scottish Forestry (£100m) to increase new planting, Forestry and Land Scotland (£30m) to expand Scotland's national forests - £20m to increase nursery stocks
	Agricultural land management	Sustainable food production systems and agircultural practices are needed to avoid ecosystem damage and make progress on wider health and wellbeing issues. Climate change mitigation, enhancing natural environments and promoting biodiversity needs to be central to food policy.	- Support deer population control to reduce damage to natural environment - Reverse cuts to Agri-Environment Climate Scheme - £10 million a year in agricultural reserach and development - Support pilot farms to trial improvements in farm efficiency and spread best practice	- Tackle monopolies, promote fairer management of land and regulate the sale of land - Regulate the sale of land of national or community significance	- Biodiversity Action Plan for land, air and sea - Fund carbon sequestration in the marine environment - Environment Act that includes legally binding targets for nature’s recovery, together with proper funding and a Nature Network for Scotland through the National Planning Framework - Support the principle of public money for public goods, such as clean water and air, beautiful scenery, andbiodiversity provision		- Support the development of vertical, low carbon farms, fuelled by renewable energy - Double both the amount of land used for organic farming and the amount of organic produce grown in Scotland - Produce more of our own fruits and vegetables
	Green Spaces	-	- Expand communal green spaces with a new national public gardens strategy - Create Scotland's third national park in Galloway - Strengthen protections for Green Belts	- Reform and expand the National and Regional Park network. - Acquire land so that more of our Parks are publicly owned - create at least two new National Parks and one new Regional Park	- Development of well-designed communities with green space as a key consideration	- Create new national parks, and new woodlands close to where people live - Ensure access to green, open spaces, wildlife corridors and woodland is available to every community - Protect green belts and gaps between settlements - Create a 'Brownfield First Policy' - Encourage the use of green living roofs to boost biodiversity and create a new network of habitats for pollinators - Preserve parks and playing fields as important community green space'	- Create a presumption against hardscaping of garden space in towns and cities and incentivise people to create pollinator friendly gardens and grow small trees in their gardens
	Peatland	-	- End peat extration for compost - Increase peatland restoration to 20,000 hectares annually by 2024-2025	- Ban burning peatlands and license any other proposed burning - £145m more to restore peatlands, putting us on target to restore all peatland by 2030, creating 414 jobs	- Increase peatland restoration to 20,000 hectares each year - Measures to end commercial peat extraction	- We will use nature to help fight climate change and foster biodiversity through restoration of peatlands and woodland - Increase biodiversity and restore peatlands to create scientific, technical and engineering opportunities in remote areas	- More than £250m investment over 10 years to restore 250,00 hectares of Scottish peatland by 2050 - Support crofters and their communities to play a bigger role in peatland restoration and woodland creation
	Other	-	- Strengthen environmental protections on land and sea with a Nature Bill - Establish Nature Networks to safeguard protected areas, allow species to move between habitats and treat our natural assets as part of our national infrastrucutre			- Declare a nature emergency.
Agriculture & Food	Good Food Nation / Right to Food	A Good Food Nation should focus on affordable and accessible nutrtitious food, sustainability, creating localy food systems and high quality produce. Progress towards a Good Food Nations requires targets to be set businesses over certain thresholds should create Good Food Nation policies to explain the action they are taking. Climate change mitigation an adaption should be central to food policy.	- Prioritise local healthy food with 'Scotland First' procurement policy in public services - Develop a 'National Food Strategy' to promoate local produce - Launch 'farm to fork' review of Scotland's food policy - Scotland's new agricultural policy's should strengthn producers' bargaining power, support them to upscale and export, and boost food and agri-tourism.	- restrict the promotion of unhealthy foods - Support reduction in meat and dairy consumption through greater choice in schools and public canteens - Maintain ban on Genetically Modified foods	- Deliver a comprehensive Good Food Nation Act based on proposals by the Scottish Food Coalition. - Invest in councils to create more food growing places. We are also committed to ensuring the Right to Food is included in legislation for a National Food Plan - Return to a more localised system of production with incentives for cheaper and healthier food - Continue funding of “A Future in Food”, to support a pipeline of highly skilled recruits to enable food and drink companies to grow and prosper	- Connsult on a Good Food Nation Bill to bring together reforms needed to promote food and drink as a resilient part of our economy	- Enshrine the Right to Food as a cornerstone of becoming a Good Food Nation - Produce a local food strategy to improve access to Scottish produce, cutting food miles - Make more land available for community gardens, orchards and allotments
	Equality in Farming	-		- Ensure decent working and living conditions for migrant and seasonal workers in the agricultural sector	- Maintain current levels of funding until 2024, then put in place a new scheme that gives farmers and crofters certainty. The new financial support must recognise farmers’ knowledge, recognising their experience in reducing emissions and protecting Scotland’s landscape and work towards sustainable farming practices	- Develop a new system of agriculture support as a starting point in driving the transition to more sustainable food production - Provide new incentives to help farmers transition to a more sustainable agriculture - Support Scottish farming to match the sector in England and Wales which has committed to carbon neutrality by 2040.	- Legislate to ensure equal rights of succession for women in agriculture - More support for women and new/young farmers, including new entrant fund - Ensure farming industry workers earn the Scottish living wage
	Crofting	-		- Introduce greater incentives for crofting, and encourage the establishment of new crofting townships - Promote repopulation in rural areas of Scotland - Establish local crofter co-ops to sell direct to the public	- A "Good Work" plan to help address the low wages in many rural communities, and retain and strengthen the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board - Introduce new crofting legislation to support crofters’ access to housing, to financial support, and to legislation that actually works for them, written in conjunction with them	- Will ‘croft proof’ future agricultural support to make sure active family farmers and crofters are properly supported.	- Shift half of funding for crofting and farming from unconditional to conditional support - Targeted outcomes for biodiversity gain and drive towards low carbon approaches - Reform laws to create more active crofts
		-	- Promote sustainable fishing and effective stock management - Protect Scotland's iconic salmon rivers - Grow the fishing and fish processing sector with a long term investment strategy	- Introduce controls on the type of fishing gear and harvesting levels allowed - Ensure at least 30% of our seas are protected	-At least one tenth of Scotland’s Seas fully protected, and a further 20% highly protected, from destructive and extractive activities by 2030	- Seek to end unsustainable fishing practices such as gill net trawling, and work to eliminate plastic pollution from our seas.	- Deliver fisheries management framework, adopting ecosystems approach which follows the science - Increase inshore fishery opportunities and support their local management - Explore potential for low carbon fishing boats on inshore waters
Reaching Net-Zero	Road to Net-Zero	Ongong advocates for net-zero targets and transparent progress disclosure of absolute figure and % reduction data. Net-zero targets have always been the ideal goal that the 2050 Climate Group has advocated for and will continue to advocate for		- New climate, energy and just transition committee and Cabinet secretary for Net-Zero - Committed to restoring onshore wind in Scotland.			- Updated Climate Change Plan to meet emission goals by 2032, with a just transition to net zero by 2045 - Support a world changing agreement at COP26 - Green Growth Accelerators, unlocking £200m for local net zero ambitions
	Negative Emissions Technologies / Carbon Capture Storage / Hydrogen	Recognise the role of carbon capture and storage but concerned about overreliance and using this as an excuse to continue using fossil fuels.	- Work with UK government to expand CCS capacity	- Oppose public investment in CCS and BECCS - Withdraw support for hydrogen produced from fossil fuels	- Investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure would deliver construction and engineering jobs across Scotland	- We will support the development of a centre of excellence for carbon capture and efficient energy generation.	- Ensure that the Scottish industry plays a leading role in the development and deployment of new, low carbon technologies, like marine renewables, hydrogen and CCUS
Climate justice & international issues	Just Transition - Transport	More affordable, widespread and reliable public transport options are important in achieving a just transition within the transport sector and supporting low-carbon, long distance travel. Public transport must be physically inclusive too, for example stations, stops and platforms should be accessible to individuals using mobility aids and wheelchairs. Low-emission vehicles are not affordable to most young people.		- Make public transport affordable and the preferred choice over private cars - Extend free bus travel to everyone under 26 - Advocate for free public transport more generally	- Implement a gendered approach to transport infrastructure, ensuring women’s safety, convenience and affordability are properly addressed. - Feasibility studies to establish a network of mobility hubs across Scotland to assist in promoting active and green travel. - Introduce free bus travel to under 25s with the long term goal of working towards universal free bus travel. - We will create neighbourhoods where people can access all the services they need within a 20-minute walk. - We will ensure our rail service is safe and fully accessible to all who travel by train and we will end the outsourcing of railway services - Rural bus routes are expanded to ensure a regular, affordable service for those who rely on it. Through common ownership, we will deliver an affordable, integrated public transport system with a smart ticket system.	- Extend free bus travel for young people to include ferry links - Help people get around the high initial cost of electric vehicles by using car clubs in more places	- Maintain and implement the recommendations of the Just Transition Commission - Appoint a Minister of Just Transition - Double the Climate Justice Fund
	Just Transition - Green Jobs	Ensure internships and apprenticeships are widely availably and fairly paid, support women and people of colour into green jobs, create new green jobs, prepare young people to pursue green jobs.		- Draw on at least £7.5bn in public investment to create over 100,000 green jobs. - Retain and grow the Green Jobs Fund and Green Jobs Workforce Academy.	- Plan to retrofit all homes across Scotland to a minimum of energy efficiency rating C by 2030 would create around 7,500 jobs in construction and manufacturing - Programme to build energy efficient council homes would sustain up to 19,000 jobs - Establish a Scottish Conservation Corps that could employ up to 10,000 people dedicated to restoring Scotlands natural environment. - Just Transition Commission should be enshrined in law to guide and support the long-term process of the shift to net zero emissions fairly - Targeted support package for the aviation ndustry which will be tied to commitments to support jobs, predicated on reducing CO2 emissions and combating the climate emergency	- Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industry. - Establish a successor to the Just Transition Commission	- Invest £100m in Green Jobs Fund to support green job creation - Support low carbon economy work by establishing the Green Jobs Workforce Academy - Put green jobs at the centre of Covid recovery
	Brexit	The impact of Brexit is a concern for many young people.		- Scotland's future is best served as a full member of the European Union, collaborating with European neighbours to build a green, prosperous and fair Europe	- Ensure that Brexit is not used as an excuse to weaken environmental standards through legislation or trade deals - Commit to fund a new set of international scholarships to keep Scotland open and accessible in a post-Brexit world.	- We have been resolute in our opposition to Brexit because the EU is good for trade for businesses, for free movement and good for our way of life.	- Rejoin the EU - Advocate for Scotland’s inclusion in Erasmus, but in the meantime create a Scottish programme of exchange