The Act amends the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 in the following sections: sections 1 and 2 replace the system of annual and interim emissions reduction targets, which are focussed on Scottish emissions of greenhouse gases in a given year, with a system of periodic carbon budgets that are focussed on emissions over a number of years; sections 3 to 8 make changes to the law surrounding the climate change plans that the Scottish Government is required to produce periodically; sections 9 to 12 make changes affecting the content, timing and parliamentary handling of different kinds of report about progress towards reducing emissions that the Scottish Government is required to produce.
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