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Independent experts have proposed a new set of targets to tackle climate change in Scotland over the next 20 years. Annual targets were abandoned by the Scottish government last year after repeatedly being missed, but ministers retained the pledge to reach net zero by 2045. The Climate Change Committee says that to meet that goal, emissions need to fall by an average of 57% over the next five years and by 69% to 2035, when compared with 1990 levels.

The report expects that by 2035, around three-fifths of cars and vans on Scottish roads will be fully electric, compared with just 2.2% for cars in 2023. The committee also predicts that 40% of existing homes will be heated by low-carbon technologies like heat pumps in the next ten years. That would require about 35,000 installations each year by 2030.

We need to decarbonise at pace and scale according to the experts and charge towards electric.

Kaye asks: if you already have an EV or a heat pump, what advice would you give to those yet to be convinced?

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The Court of Karen returns with another humdrum conundrum. Karen Mackenzie presents the case, and you decide the verdict. This week: 'Was it wrong to basically invite myself on holiday with my sister and her relatively new partner?' Text 80295 or call/WhatsApp 08085929500.

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