Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) Investing in our public services to ensure that they are effective and sustainable is central to delivering - Speech Link
2: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) That is disappointing and frustrating.Scotland’s public finances are not sustainable without huge changes - Speech Link
3: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) It will tax the eye-watering profits of oil and gas giants to bring down energy bills. - Speech Link
4: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) prioritise maintaining and building sustainable and effective public services. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Grant, Rhoda (Lab - Highlands and Islands) energy costs in rural areas.Rural areas need homes, infrastructure and access to services, and I urge - Speech Link
2: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) However, our rural economies can also be transformed through work in nature restoration, renewable energy - Speech Link
3: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) activities and social enterprise.The area has seen a proliferation of renewable energy, and the nine - Speech Link
4: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) sustainable solutions. - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) for themselves: the “Scottish Hydrogen Assessment” report concluded that large-scale production of renewable - Speech Link
2: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) energy transition, and we can learn from them and implement those lessons in this transition. - Speech Link
3: Arthur, Tom (SNP - Renfrewshire South) tailored support to help them to progress into sustainable employment.The Edinburgh and south-east Scotland - Speech Link
4: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) addition to engaging with local authorities, what engagement does the Scottish Government have with renewable - Speech Link

Correspondence Jun. 11 2024

Found: Just Transition for the North East and Moray report - Response from the Scottish Government Letter from

S6W-27870

Asked by: Golden, Maurice (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what opportunities it has identified to exceed current EU standards in encouraging sustainable energy production from commercial, industrial and waste management sources.

Answered by Martin, Gillian - Minister for Energy and the Environment

The Scottish Government is committed to maintaining alignment with the EU where such alignment would be possible and meaningful in protecting and advancing the standards we share.

On waste management sources of energy, where waste is unavoidable and unrecyclable, the Scottish Government’s aim is to recover the highest value, while minimising as far as possible the environmental impacts of managing this waste, including through energy recovery. The second report of the Review of the Role Incineration in Scotland’s Waste Hierarchy made recommendations on the decarbonisation of residual waste, and the Scottish Government accepted these recommendations in full or in principle, including on the expansion of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, ending the unnecessary incineration of plastic, incentivising heat networks and supporting the development of Carbon Capture Utilisation Storage (CCUS).

On heat networks, the Heat Network Support Unit, sponsored by the Scottish Government, supports heat network projects through the pre-capital stages of development through advice and funding. This support includes offering advice and grant funding for developing feasibility studies, Outline Business Cases (OBCs) and project commercialisation. The HNSU has supported several projects that seek to utilise excess heat from Energy from Waste facilities. This includes a recent feasibility study with Glasgow City Council, exploring the opportunity to utilise heat from the Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC). Through Scotland’s Heat Network Fund and its predecessor the Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme, the Scottish Government has provided approximately £32.8 million combined funding for heat networks which utilise recovered heat, including two projects using recovered heat from waste facilities in both Aberdeen and Midlothian and a project recovering Heat from a Waste water treatment facility in Stirling. In addition, the Scottish Government, in collaboration with Scottish
‎ Enterprise, will shortly publish a guidance document which provides information about how we can improve the capture and utilisation of heat from industrial and commercial processes.

In taking these things forward we will of course be mindful of existing and new EU legislation, like the EU Waste Framework Directive, Industrial Emissions Directive and Renewable Energy Directive.

The second report of the Review of the Role Incineration in Scotland’s Waste Hierarchy can be found here: 1 Introduction - Decarbonisation of residual waste infrastructure: report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

The Government Response to the second report of the Review of the Role Incineration in Scotland’s Waste Hierarchy: Supporting documents - Decarbonisation of residual waste infrastructure: Scottish Government response - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

Correspondence Jun. 10 2024

Found: Summary Report UK EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement Correspondence and summary report from the Cabinet