{"id":6332,"date":"2026-06-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:47:39","slug":"scotlands-climate-progress-is-slowing-down-and-campaigners-say-its-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=6332","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s climate progress is slowing down and campaigners say it&#8217;s not good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s emissions dropped by 1% last year, half the reduction seen in 2023, and transport and buildings actually got worse \u2013 prompting campaigners to say progress is &#8220;nowhere near strong enough&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/scotland-climate-progress-is-slowing-down-and-campaigners-say-it-s-not-good-enough-1781536856779.webp\" data-image=\"2jw4h4do8f5j\" alt=\"Scotland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half since 1990, but newly released figures have shown that the pace of progress has slowed to just a 1% reduction over the past year.\" title=\"Scotland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half since 1990, but newly released figures have shown that the pace of progress has slowed to just a 1% reduction over the past year.\">Scotland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half since 1990, but newly released figures have shown that the pace of progress has slowed to just a 1% reduction over the past year.<\/figure>\n<p>Scotland has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half since 1990, a milestone that should be celebrated &#8211; until you look at how much of that has happened recently. <\/p>\n<p>It seems the rate of the emissions decline keeps shrinking year on year. In fact, the latest figures show emissions fell by just 1% in 2024 compared to the previous year \u2013 that&#8217;s about 0.4 million tonnes in equivalent CO2, which is roughly half the 2% drop recorded in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, some sectors actually seem to be getting worse. Domestic transport, which at 28% is already Scotland&#8217;s single biggest source of emissions, went up. So did international aviation and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ Scotland&#8217;s emissions dropped by 1% last year, half the reduction seen in 2023, and transport and buildings actually got worse \u2013 prompting campaigners to say progress is &#8220;nowhere near strong enough&#8221; Scotland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half since 1990, but newly released figures have shown that the pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}