An uncomfortable truth about climate targets - with people already struggling to pay bills

The fingerprints of climate change are all around us. The deluge in Dubai, our own sodden spring, and the planet's warmest January, February and March on record. It has already been a year of extremes - and we are only three months in. There is a strong scientific consensus that there is only one way of reigning in the wild weather. The faster we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the sooner global warming slows. But the politics are more complicated.

Read more:What is cloud seeding and did it cause record rainfall in Dubai? So Scotland is set to dump its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030. Ministers have missed eight of the past 12 milestones towards that goal already and it looked out of reach anyway. But it is a significant moment for a nation that once led the UK on the pace of its green transition - and hosted the UN climate conference just over two years ago.

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