S6W-27970

Asked by: Lennon, Monica (Scottish Labour - Central Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether Scotland will be represented at the 60th Sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is taking place in Bonn, Germany, in June 2024.

Answered by McAllan, Màiri - Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition

Scottish Government International Climate Change Officials are attending the 60th Sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Scottish Ministers are not in attendance.

Although Scotland is not a UN member state, the Scottish Government is resolute in our commitment to utilise our convening and influencing powers wherever possible in order to drive forward climate action internationally.

S6W-28006

Asked by: Briggs, Miles (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Lothian)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what strategy it has developed to consider coastal defences.

Answered by McAllan, Màiri - Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition

The Scottish Government recognises the impacts of climate change on coastal communities and the need to consider coastal defences.

Our Dynamic Coast 2 project, published in 2021, helps local authorities and other stakeholders identify where the greatest risks are from coastal erosion this decade and into the future. The 2020 Programme for Government committed £12 million to local authorities, over four years, for coastal change adaptation to allow them to plan for, and protect communities from, the impacts of coastal erosion and sea level rise. We published Guidance in 2023, to support local authorities in the preparation of Coastal Change Adaptation Plans,which includes using nature based solutions as part of coastal protection.

Improving resilience to flooding is a priority for the Scottish Government and we continue to work with, and support, local authorities to fulfil their obligations to reduce the impact of flooding from all sources including coastal. To support flood protection measures, the Scottish Government provides £42 million each year to local authorities. In August 2020, the Programme for Government also committed an additional £150 million over 5 years to support flood risk management actions.

The Scottish Government is currently consulting on a Flood Resilience Strategy for Scotland which will lay out what we need to do in the long term to make our places more flood resilient, including at our coasts.

Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) Scottish Government’s priorities of eradicating child poverty, growing our economy and tackling the climate - Speech Link
2: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) All that the Scottish Government is doing with that is ensuring that we will not meet its climate change - Speech Link
3: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) There are huge challenges, such as the deeply embedded inequality in the UK and the climate crisis, which - Speech Link
4: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) That is the change that Labour offers, and it is the change that the public know and want. - Speech Link
5: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) That is not change; it is continued short change, and it is continued austerity. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) How does the First Minister think that any climate compatibility assessment will say that it is okay - Speech Link
2: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) Government’s position for a formidable amount of time—it is certainly not something new this week—that climate - Speech Link
3: Slater, Lorna (Green - Lothian) That evidence does not change on a case-by-case basis. - Speech Link
4: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) That is why I say that a reckless commitment to 100 new oil and gas licences is just the territory of climate - Speech Link
5: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) Will he finally accept the need to change tack and give us full backing for our right to recovery bill - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: None Somehow we need to change that outlook. - Speech Link
2: None What there is a risk of is a change in the shape of provision. - Speech Link
3: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) However, if we imagine that that is not possible given the prevailing fiscal climate, what additional - Speech Link
4: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) What specifically would need to change to allow them to do that? - Speech Link
5: None The issue is how quickly some institutions can adapt to a change in funding circumstances. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Roddick, Emma (SNP - Highlands and Islands) are—they are difficult, and I do not deny that, nor do I deny the need for investment and action to change - Speech Link
2: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) opportunity could be brought to the Highlands and Islands through the actions that are needed to address the climate - Speech Link
3: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) When young people and communities see their priorities embraced as an impetus for change and feel that - Speech Link