Scottish climate change adaptation programme: An independent assessment for the Scottish Parliament (2016)

This statutory report is the Adaptation Sub-Committee’s first to the Scottish Parliament. It provides an interim evaluation of the progress being made to prepare for climate change, two years after the Scottish Government published its inaugural Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (SCCAP) in 2014.

The report presents the following recommendations to the Scottish Government (pp. 11-12):

• Address all of the urgent risks and opportunities for Scotland.
• Identify a senior owner for each objective to be held accountable for its delivery.
• List the specific actions that will be taken to achieve each objective together with appropriate milestones and timescales.
• Introduce an effective monitoring regime, to allow the impact of actions and delivery of each objective to be properly assessed.
• Present the actions being taken within each sector together and co-ordinate their delivery.