SCOTTISH ministers have been accused of lacking ambition over making housing and transport more environmentally friendly after it emerged the country missed its targets for carbon emissions in the first year they had been set in law.
Although Environment and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson blamed an excessively cold winter for emissions of greenhouse gases rising 6% to 55.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2010, opponents insisted the results would have been better if the Government had been more aggressive in reforming high-emissions areas like transport and housing.
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