The UK must not water down its environmental laws as it leaves the European Union, one of the government’s most senior advisers on climate change has warned. He said his experts found there was insufficient evidence to say whether Scotland’s vulnerability to global warming was decreasing or not when they reviewed the Scottish climate change adaptation programme. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency said that brought overall emissions down by 34% since 2007. The CCC’s analysis of the Scottish climate change adaptation programme, published on Tuesday, found that 109 of its 148 policies and proposals for improving resilience had no timescale for delivery, even though ministers said they were “on track”. “Scotland and England are in a pretty similar place in terms of progress [but] I would say Scotland wants to put a bit more emphasis on collecting information to show what’s actually happening,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 26, 2016 23:01 UTC