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Scottish communities granted £3.2m for climate action projects
The Community Climate Asset Fund is supporting 279 projects, which includes the delivery of electric bikes, food growing equipment to reduce carbon emission and glazing to boost energy efficiency
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The Scottish Government has announced £3.2 million of funding to help communities tackle climate change and deliver a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Community Climate Asset Fund will support a total of 279 projects, which includes the delivery of electric bikes, food growing equipment to reduce carbon emissions as well as glazing to boost energy efficiency.
Three of the recipients of the funding are Blood Bikes Scotland, Orkney Blide Trust and Fair Isle Primary School.
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Steering Scotland’s pathway to net zero Published:
Roadmap to world-leading climate change targets published.
More than 100 new policies and proposals to support Scotland’s green recovery and help deliver a just transition to net zero have been launched.
They form part of the Climate Change Plan 2018 – 2032, which has been updated to reflect the world’s most ambitious framework of climate targets as enshrined in Scotland’s Climate Change Act 2019.
The Plan, which also increases the ambition of more than 40 other policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors, includes:
the launch of a £180 million Emerging Energy Technologies Fund (EETF), that, over the next 5 years, will support the development of Scottish hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) industries, and support the development of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs)