Recommendation 6

Tackling climate change is one of many demands on local government resources, and will intersect with a number of key issues such as housing and transport. As a minimum, each local authority needs to retain climate change teams with sufficient skills and expertise to guide and inform the authority's journey to net zero. Given the importance of local authorities in tackling climate change and thus meeting the CCP's ambitions the Scottish Government should explore what additional resource and long-term certainty it can provide through multi-year funding.