I.B.H.Q.

Interesting report from the Scottish Parliament’s Enterprise Committee’s report on renewable energy. It backs renewables and greater energy efficiency and calls for a comprehensive Scottish energy policy.

However it makes some criticism too of the wind energy strategy I thought would be of interest to the current Island Blogging debate.

It starts by noting that to date Scotland has achieved a reduction of just 4.9% in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 (less than half the 12.8% average achieved by the UK as a whole), climate change emissions from the energy sector increased by 27% between 1990 and 2000.

I’ll post the recommendations in two parts…