Overview of the Act and General Notes Interpretation Part 1: Emissions Reduction Targets Section 4: Content of plan: budget-period breakdown of costs and benefits
49.Section 4 of the Act modifies section 35 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 in relation to the information that a climate change plan must contain.
50.Section 35(21) of the 2009 Act requires that a climate change plan include an estimate of the costs and benefits associated with the policies described by the plan. Section 4 of the Act modifies that provision to require those estimates to be broken down by reference to the Scottish carbon budget periods within which the estimated costs and benefits are expected to arise.
51.For an explanation of Scottish carbon budgets, and the periods they cover, see paragraphs 12 to 23 above.