Onshore conventional oil and gas - call for evidence: analysis of responses

Footnotes

1. The United Nations defines 'net zero' as 'cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance'.

2. Scottish Government (2020) Update to the Climate Change Plan 2018–2032.

3. Scottish Government (2021) The Draft Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4). See in particular, Part 3 (National Planning Policy), Policy 22: Minerals.

4. One respondent identified Scotland's inshore waters as areas such as the Firth of Forth, the Firth of Clyde, the Solway Firth, the Sea of Hebrides, the Minches, etc.

5. STEM = Science, technology, engineering and maths.