Abandonment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Sturgeon wore her targets on her sleeve when Scotland hosted the UN in Glasgow in 2021.
50% : But Woods said something else, too, an observation more honest, if no less deplorable: his company, he admitted, had no interest in backing renewable energy because it did not offer "above average returns to shareholders".
41% : Yesterday it was announced that the Scottish government is to abandon its "world-leading" goal to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, after repeatedly missing its legally binding targets (we missed eight out of the last twelve).
41% : Its report said the 2030 target (to cut carbon emissions by 75% by that year) was "no longer credible" because of slow and insufficient action on home heating, transport, farming and nature restoration.
31% : Commenting on this in the TLS Bill McKibben, founder of 360.org wrote:"Many who read it reacted most negatively to his insistence that civilization had "waited too long" to make a switch to renewable energy, and so needed to rely various schemes such as carbon capture to make its continued reliance on fossil fuel survivable.

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