Scots Roads Projects Criticised by Greens Plans Will Deliver Only Half the Cuts in Emissions

Sunday Herald › October 19, 2009

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SCOTTISH ministers are being warned by their own advisers that major roadbuilding schemes - such as the new bridge over the Firth of Forth - are shortsighted, and could crash their targets to cut climate pollution.

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), which advises on green policies, is preparing a damning critique of the Scottish government's transport priorities. To be delivered next month, it will expose a "significant policy gap" which threatens to derail Scotland's world-leading climate legislation.

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Scots Roads Projects Criticised by Greens Plans Will Deliver Only Half the Cuts in Emissions

The assessment will point out that the transport measures so far promised will deliver only half the cuts in carbon emissions needed to meet climate ...

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