In 2019 Scotland made history by becoming the world's first government to declare a climate emergency. Now after Brexit and both a UK and Scottish election, it finds itself at a crossroads over which direction it should go to tackle it.With Cop26 looming, as the SNP and Greens talk ‘co-operation’ in the face of consternation from the Conservatives, Labour and others, as Westminster considers oil and gas even as the IPCC warns against and business counts the cost of a global pandemic, the decisions made in the coming weeks and months could shape generations.Among those having their say on the matter was Scotland’s Climate Assembly, established by Scotland’s Climate Change Act (2019), including around 100 people from all walks of life invited to take part in a conversation about what the nation should do.For this episode Sustainable Scotland host Shaun Milne spoke with Professor Iain Stewart who chaired its evidence group and assembly member Jocelyn Richard after their much anticipated report - which included 81 recommendations for the Scottish Government to act on to tackle the climate emergency - was published.Jocelyn said: “Some things can only be driven by government. Government has the resources to put in place the funding that we need, the investment that we need and this is considerable to encourage businesses to step up.”Iain added: “We really need the democratic will of Scottish people that this is the direction of travel we need to go in.”“It’s the will to make this happen that’s the missing link.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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