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Climate Assembly report hailed as ‘clarion call’ for action
Frequent flier schemes should be scrapped, the Climate Assembly suggested (Chris Radburn/PA)
A new report containing more than 80 recommendations on how Scotland should tackle climate change has been hailed as a “clarion call” for action.
Scotland’s Climate Assembly is demanding action to reduce emissions across a whole range of areas – with calls for a ban on single use plastics “unless there is no viable alternative”.
To encourage people out of their cars, it calls for public transport to be made “cheaper, or free”, with standardised smart ticketing introduced across the whole country in what it said could be an “Oyster card for Scotland”.
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National Nature Service could solve unemployment in Dundee and beyond eveningtelegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eveningtelegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two West Sussex Councils have applied for permission to create a large undersea forest of kelp - a project they claim will boost biodiversity while sequestering carbon emissions.