NICOLA Sturgeon is being urged to show “global leadership” on climate change by stepping up Scotland’s efforts to reduce emissions. Campaigners at Oxfam made the plea as they published a new report on the “terrifying global reality” of the problem – which they say hits the most vulnerable people in the world the hardest. Oxfam Scotland is now calling on the Scottish Government to set a zero net emissions target – where the amount of greenhouse gases produced is not greater than those which are removed by measures such as planting forests and carbon capture and storage.The Scottish Government is already proposing a 90 per cent cut in emissions by 2050 – up from the 80 per cent it had originally set out in legislation.
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