Overview of the Act and General Notes Interpretation Part 1: Emissions Reduction Targets Background: meaning of climate change plan
43.Sections 3 to 8 of the Act concern climate change plans. A climate change plan is a document that the Scottish Ministers are required to produce periodically under section 35 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Section 35 lists matters that a climate change plan is to cover. In broad terms, the plan is to set out how the Scottish Ministers envisage emissions being reduced over the lifetime of the plan.