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SCIAF backs new climate change manifesto

Download the new Stop Climate Chaos Scotland manifesto (front cover photo: Callum Bennett).

SCIAF is backing calls for all political parties in Scotland to commit to vital climate change actions in their manifestos ahead of next year's Scottish elections.

The Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) coalition, which represents over 60 organisations including SCIAF, has launched its own manifesto demands and is calling for campaigners, supporters and the public to write to party leaders.

Specific commitments being supported by SCIAF include an additional climate change adaptation fund of £9 million to help poor communities overseas deal with climate change, and ruling out the use of carbon credits to meet emissions reduction targets set out in the Scottish Climate Change Act.

Lexi Barnet, SCIAF's campaigns officer said:

“SCIAF is already helping poor communities who are being directly affected by climate change, despite them having done least to create the problem. Together with other wealthy nations, Scotland has an historic and moral obligation to help those most affected by the problem that we helped to create.

“In addition to reducing Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 42% by 2020 without using carbon credits we are calling for an additional £9 million per year to enable poor communities to adapt to and deal with the effects of climate change."

Members of the public are being urged to pick their top two demands to send in an email action to all the party leaders.

Click here to back SCIAF in calling for an additional £9 million to help poor communities affected by climate change and for Scotland to cut its emissions without buying carbon credits.

Scottish journalist Rob Edwards has just published a new online article on the new SCCS manifesto. Click here to read it.