• Executive Summary

• Recommendations

• Membership changes and references to the Cabinet Secretary

• Introduction
  • Legislative framework on climate change and need for this Bill
  • Committee scrutiny
  • Consideration by other Committees

• Overview of the Bill

• Lessons to be learned from missing the 2030 target

• Carbon budgeting versus annual and interim targets
  • A hybrid system?
  • Setting carbon budgets: advice from the CCC
  • Is five years the right period for a carbon budget?
  • How many budgets?
  • How a carbon budget will be set out
  • Surplus

• Timing and order of carbon budgeting milestones, and consequences for effective scrutiny
  • Urgency
  • How quickly will the first carbon budget(s) be set?
  • Parliamentary process for considering carbon budgets
    • Parliamentary scrutiny of carbon budgets
    • Enhanced scrutiny process, including "super-affirmative" procedure
  • Sequencing carbon budgets and draft climate change plans
  • Alignment with the UK carbon budgets
  • Next scheduled Scottish Parliament election and implications for scrutiny and sequencing

• Content and collaborative development of the next climate change plan
  • Content of the Plan
  • Collaborative development

• Reporting processes during a carbon budget period
  • Annual reporting on emission reduction and climate change plan progress
  • Failure to meet targets and section 36 reports
  • Progress reports by the CCC

• Accompanying documents
  • Policy Memorandum
  • Delegated Powers Memorandum
  • Financial Memorandum

• General principles

• Annexe A

• Annexe B