Recommendation 14

It will be for the next Convener's Group to decide whether to continue to deem climate change and net zero to be a cross-cutting strategic priority for committees in the next Session. We think this has been successful in raising the profile and salience of these matters across committees, encouraging cross-committee scrutiny, and improving Members' and committees' access to information and data. It helped create the conditions for an unprecedented level of committee engagement in scrutiny of the draft Climate Change Plan. Whatever CG may formally determine next session, climate change is too big, systemic and multidisciplinary for one committee to cover it effectively. We encourage successor committees and the next CG to work to promote the same level of cross-committee cooperation and communication, and support for net zero scrutiny, as we achieved this session, and to support techniques and approaches to assist Members and committees in their work being continued into the next Session.