Consultation on the Draft Scottish Climate Change Adaption Programme: Analysis of Responses

Footnotes

1. Section 44 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 requires that a public body must, in exercising its functions, act: in the way best calculated to deliver any statutory adaptation programme; and in a way that it considers most sustainable.

2. Here, and elsewhere in this Summary, "the majority of respondents" refers to the majority of those who responded to the closed questions regarding these aspects of the Programme.

3. Section 44 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 requires that a public body must, in exercising its functions, act: in the way best calculated to deliver any statutory adaptation programme; and in a way that it considers most sustainable.

4. Across all questions, some respondents made comments, but did not tick a box in the closed question. Thus for some questions (including Question 1a), there were more comments to the open questions than responses to the tick box questions.