Everyone talks about the climate emergency but only Scottish Labour is prepared to give priority to the actions needed to tackle it. Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution aims to create 50,000 good sustainable jobs. We will invest in improved public transport and roads and I will fight to have rail links reopened through Cumnock and Mauchline. Cumnock and Doon Valley has had to live with the economic legacy of the pit closures and the devastating aftermath to the environment of opencast mining.
We must also turn around the decline in our coastal towns and villages that has seen tourism plummet and increases in deprivation and levels of child poverty. The SNP Scottish Government plans to slash a green fund by 20% that supports local farmers to tackle climate change.
We deserve a climate recovery plan that will see zero emissions by 2045; energy efficient homes; up to thousands of pounds a year saved on heating bills; sustainable well paid jobs for our young people. We guarantee extending free bus travel to under 25s and interest free loans to people on low incomes to buy electric cars.
But climate change knows no borders. It requires international co-operation and that’s why the COP 26 planned for Glasgow in November is a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to lead by example. I want us to go away from COP 26 with a Glasgow Agreement that will mark the starting point of turning around the fight against climate change worldwide.
We must also turn around the decline in our coastal towns and villages that has seen tourism plummet and increases in deprivation and levels of child poverty. The SNP Scottish Government plans to slash a green fund by 20% that supports local farmers to tackle climate change.
We deserve a climate recovery plan that will see zero emissions by 2045; energy efficient homes; up to thousands of pounds a year saved on heating bills; sustainable well paid jobs for our young people. We guarantee extending free bus travel to under 25s and interest free loans to people on low incomes to buy electric cars.
But climate change knows no borders. It requires international co-operation and that’s why the COP 26 planned for Glasgow in November is a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to lead by example. I want us to go away from COP 26 with a Glasgow Agreement that will mark the starting point of turning around the fight against climate change worldwide.
