Crofters, farmers and fishermen should be rewarded for their stewardship of the land and sea
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Green MSP Ariane Burgess has urged First Minister Humza Yousaf's to take radical action on climate, calling for incentives to reward those who work the land or sea.
She was speaking in Holyrood at the very first of Mr Yousaf's First Minister’s Questions which was interrupted six times due to climate protesters in the public gallery.
The Highlands and Islands MSP underlined what she called the "opportunities that will come from tackling the greatest challenge of our time" and asked how his team would tackle climate change.
“The UN Secretary General recently said that our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once," she said.
"That is the challenge for the new Climate Plan for Scotland, and the Scottish Greens are committed to playing our part in ensuring we meet it.
"We need a Climate Plan which transforms transport, reshapes land use, radically shifts how we keep our homes warm and reaps the reward of tens of thousands of green jobs in our new economy.”
Speaking afterwards, she said: “Meeting the climate challenge will require better incentives to reward our farmers and crofters for stewarding our land and producing our food, reward our low-impact fishers for stewarding our fisheries for the future and the wonders under our seas, and reward our rural communities for restoring our native woodlands, peatland and coastal habitats.”
