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Climate Change: Consultation on Proposals for a Scottish Climate Change Bill

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1 Government Economic Strategy, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/12115041/0

2 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Address to the High-Level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 12 December 2007. Full speech available from:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=161

3 Scottish Budget Spending Review 2007, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/13092240/0

4 Scotland's Renewable Resource 2001, executive summary available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/09/18270/27258

5 Changing Our Ways, Scotland's Climate Change Programme, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/03/30091039/0

6 IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Available from:
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

7 Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

8 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available from:
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm

9 Climate change 2007: Synthesis Report (Summary for Policymakers), IPCC, available from:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf

10 Key Scottish Environment Statistics 2007, Global Atmosphere, Annual Mean Temperature: 1914-2006, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/08/20165714/8

11 Patterns of climate change across Scotland: technical report, available from:
http://www.sniffer.org.uk/exe/download.asp?sniffer_outputs/CC03.pdf

12 Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1990-2005 is available from:
http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/reports/cat07/0709180907_DA_GHGI_report_2005.pdf.

13 Energy and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Projections for Scotland, 1990-2020 in Chapter 4 Section A of the Scottish Economic Report January 2002, available from: http://194.247.95.101/Resource/Doc/158582/0043007.pdf

14 Projections of Non-CO 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the UK and Constituent Countries - Final Report, WS Atkins Consultants. Available from:
http://products.ihs.com/Ohsis-SEO/98347.html (online subscription required).

15 Scottish Energy Study. Summary Report available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/19092557/0; Volume 1 available from
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/19092748/0; and Volume 2 available from
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/19093058/0

16 Meeting the Energy Challenge: A White Paper on Energy, available from:
http://www.berr.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/page39534.html

17 The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

18 The Climate Group brought together representatives of smaller countries, regions and states at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 12 in Nairobi in 2006, where they agreed to work together through a Climate Alliance. Further information is available on the Climate Group website at www.theclimategroup.org.

19 The consultation was conducted solely on the basis of the UK Government with Devolved Administrations engaged at a later date. Further information available is from:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/uk/legislation/index.htm

20 Changing Our Ways, Scotland's Climate Change Programme, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/03/30091039/0

21 Scotland's Climate Change Programme: Annual Report 2007, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/08105454/0

22 Government Economic Strategy, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/12115041/0

23 Scottish Budget Spending Review 2007, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/13092240/0

24 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, available from:
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm

25 ISAUK Research Report 07-0, A Definition of 'Carbon Footprint', Thomas Wiedmann and Jan Minx, available from:
http://www.isa-research.co.uk/docs/ISA-UK_Report_07-01_carbon_footprint.pdf

26 SEI, WWF and CURE (2006). Counting Consumption - CO 2 emissions, material flows and Ecological Footprint of the UK by region and devolved country, available from:
http://www.wwflearning.org.uk/data/files/ecological-budget-uk-report-348.pdf

27 Mechanisms for reducing methane and HFC emissions from four selected sectors, AEA Technology study for Defra, available from:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/uk/business/crc/pdf/aeat-reducing-emissions-report.pdf

28 Uncertainty is defined as ± 2 (standard deviation)/mean %, which closely approximates the 95% confidence interval.

29 The N 2O distribution is heavily skewed so that 2.5% (lower) and 97.5% (upper) confidence limits are quoted.

30 At the time of printing, the European Commission was due to make a public announcement on 23 January 2008 about future European Union Emissions Trading Scheme caps. Information about EUETS is available from:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/emission.htm

31 Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention (Dialogue Working Paper 8), UNFCCC, available from:
http://unfccc.int/cooperation_and_support/financial_mechanism/items/4053.php

32 White Paper: Eliminating World Poverty: Making Governance Work for the Poor, available from:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/wp2006/default.asp

33 Available from: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/climatechangebill

34 22nd Report of the Royal Commission On Environmental Pollution, available from:
http://www.rcep.org.uk/newenergy.htm

35 Emission Trading Scheme ( EUETS) Community Independent Transaction Log, more information available from:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/emission/citl_en.htm

36 Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration: Achieving a Low Carbon Future: A Strategy for Scotland - draft for consultation, available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/09144516/0

37 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, available from:
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm

38 A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy For Scotland, available from:
http://www.sbsa.gov.uk/pdfs/Low_Carbon_Building_Standards_Strategy_For_Scotland.pdf

The Scottish Government's initial response to this Strategy is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2007/12/12124702

39 Scottish Climate Change Declaration, available from:
http://www.sustainable-scotland.net/climatechange/

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