Meeting description: To discuss current issues of concern to the Church of Scotland in particular: To call for Scotland to be a Net Zero carbon emissions nation by 2050 and ask the First Minister to bring this about within the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill currently in the Scottish Parliament. To emphasise the need to reduce child poverty as a matter of urgency and to ask what steps can be taken to implement the Income Supplement as announced by the Scottish Government sooner than 2022. To ask for a renewed commitment to Refugee Resettlement in the UK after 2020 and seek commitments to raise this issue at a UK level. To highlight the Eurodiaconia annual conference which will bring Church related social care organisations from across Europe together in Edinburgh and Glasgow in March 2019 and mention an invitation which was previously made to the First Minister to address the event.
Topic label: Climate