Policy Title: Scottish Climate Change Bill
Department: DIRECTOR-GENERAL ENVIRONMENT
Group: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER INDUSTRY
Division: Climate Change
Branch: Scottish Climate Change Bill
| What does the information given say about how this policy might impact positively or negatively on the different groups within the target audience? |
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| On Age | Flooding:
Information in the report, Exploring the Social Impacts of Flood Risk and Flooding, indicates that elderly residents at risk of flooding may suffer a disproportionate impact due to associated social and financial factors. The Bill will drive forward action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, although it will be the success of global policy which will reduce the associated risks, which may have a slight proportionately positive impact on the elderly.
Transport:
The Bill will drive forward action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which could lead to the possibility of an increase in public transport availability. This may have a slight positive impact on those in younger and older age groups proportionately. Every effort will be made to ensure that action to mitigate and adapt to climate change complements action being taken to improve air quality, where the most positive effect is on the more vulnerable younger and older age groups.
Fuel poverty:
Increases in fuel costs may affect those in pensioner households proportionately more in a negative way. However, the Bill, in driving forward action to mitigate climate change, may result in greater energy efficiency measures which may affect those in pensioner households proportionately more positively.
Waste:
It is unlikely that any measures to be taken in connection with waste provisions of the Bill would have particular implications for older age groups.
Other:
Some people, depending on age, will be less able to tackle their own contribution to climate change. As well, in taking forward future measures to mitigate climate change, communication strategies will need to take age into consideration.
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| On Faith/Religious Belief | There were no significant issues in the available data. |
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| On Gender | Flooding:
Information in the report, Exploring the Social Impacts of Flood Risk and Flooding, indicates that lone parent families at risk of flooding may suffer a disproportionate impact due to associated social and financial factors. The Bill will drive forward action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which may have a slight indirect positive impact on women proportionately, although it will be the success of global policy which will reduce the associated risks.
Transport:
The Bill will drive forward action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which could lead to the possibility of an increase in public transport availability. This may have a slight proportionately positive impact for women, due to their higher use of public transport. However, the Bill could result in the need for schemes which will penalise the use of private transport, which could have a slight proportionately negative impact for men, due to their higher use of private vehicles for their jobs (i.e. freight, delivery, trades). The proportion of active travel trips is expected to increase.
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| On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender | No data is available. |
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| On Race | Transport:
The Bill will drive forward action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which could lead to the possibility of an increase in public transport availability. This may have a slight proportionately positive impact for some non-white ethnic groups.
Other:
In taking forward future measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change, communication strategies will need to take these issues into consideration.
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