 That concludes the debate on tackling online child abuse, grooming and exploitation. It is now time to move on to those, which an urgent question. Thank you, Presiding Officer. to ask the Scottish Government what impact the Prime Minister's announcement on delaying a range of net zero targets will have on Scotland's target to become net zero by 2045. Maery McLennan Definitely. The Prime Minister's statement yesterday was an unforgettable betrayal of current and future generations and has again put the UK government on the wrong side of history. His reckless pans have been branded shocking and hugely disappointing by Al Gore and hugely damaging and a colossal error by business and consumer groups alike. I'd like to be crystal clear that despite the UK government reneging on their keenest zero commitments arnoedd sylweddodd ac yn cyfarfod i'r gyfrifiadau cyfrifol am gyfrifolau a byddiologau. We have always been clear that the delivery of Scotland's climate ambition is contingent on action by the UK Government in reserved and shared areas. Yesterday's announcements will undoubtedly have serious implications for the delivery of climate ambition here in Scotland. Despite the far-reaching implications, we were given no notice by the UK government by the UK Government yesterday, so we are now currently having to urgently assess the impact on Scotland, and it's right that we take the time to do that. But right now, however, Parliament will recognise that the sheer scale of the Prime Minister's astonishing policy reversals will have a potentially significant impact on developments here in Scotland, not least on the preparation of our own draft climate change plan. I can agree with the cabinet secretary that yesterday's announcement by the Prime Minister is a complete abdication of leadership and sends the wrong message to world leaders, businesses and our constituents. But even before this retrograde step with the Tories, the Scottish Government were failing to meet their own climate targets on homes and buildings, transport and land, and the output from the green finance task force has now been delayed from this autumn to next year. Will the Scottish Government give certainty to business? Will they accelerate their green industrial strategy, not leave businesses waiting for months, so that we can see the certainty in crucial supply chains and investment that will deliver a just transition for workers and businesses across Scotland? I remind Sarah Boyack of two things. First, Scotland's climate change emissions reduction framework is some of the most stretching in the world. While we have missed some targets and met some targets at our last count, we missed it only by 1.2 per cent. That told me two things. Firstly, the actions of this Government are helping us to track very closely where we need to be on the backdrop of some of the most stretching targets in the world. Equally, it told me that we have a great deal left to do. Myself, my officials and my colleagues in Government, we were and continue to be hard at work developing Scotland's next climate change plan, which will demonstrate how we will meet our targets right across our society and our economy. However, there can be no hiding from the fact that this 11-hour upheaval of some of the most important climate objectives across the UK from the Prime Minister last night does create a great deal of uncertainty. It is right that I now take the time with my officials to assess the impact on Scotland. I will be glad to update Sarah Boyack and others after the conclusion of that. I welcome the fact that the cabinet secretary is prepared to do an update, but we need to make sure that we get the change that we need. We in Labour have got the ambition with a deliverable plan, establishing GBNG HQ in Scotland, backed up by £28 billion a year by the mid-term of the Labour Government, reducing people's bills and creating the green jobs that we urgently need. I agree with the cabinet secretary an urgency and need to act now. Will the cabinet secretary accept that the Scottish Government will need to redouble its efforts to tackle the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis by investing to support small businesses across Scotland and to give people the opportunity in our communities to get the low-carbon jobs and training that we need, but ramp up the retrofitting of people's homes across the country, given that 38 per cent of our households now live in fuel poverty and not let people down and fail to deliver by underspending by £133 million, as happened last year? I think that I said at the top of my original answer, but please allow me to repeat that this Government remains absolutely committed to tackling the twin crises of climate change and nature loss, and we remain committed to doing that via a just transition. There are probably just two points that I would like to make in response to Sarah Boyack. The first is that Labour is not standing on a credible position here, given some of the major commitments that its own leader, Keir Starmer, has been so keen to shed as he seeks to ready himself to enter number 10. It seems the closer that Keir Starmer gets to number 10, the more he abandons Labour principles. Of course, that includes its £28 billion green investment fund, which its shadow chancellor was keen to scrap over the summer, and its flip-flopping on low-emission zones. Let's not forget, Presiding Officer, that low-emission zones are one of the key ways that we improve air quality in our city centres, and let's not forget that it is the most vulnerable people in our society who are affected by that. The other point that I just wanted to make in response to Sarah Boyack is that we will keep working to realise our ambitions, but what she does not appear to understand is that we are having to make up for Westminster failure. The sooner that Labour wakes up to that fact and joins us in the realisation that Scotland can only tackle climate change when we are a normal independent country, the better. It is really galling that, although the First Minister shows leadership on the climate change agenda in New York, the Prime Minister rips up what little policies the UK Government had on climate change. That is extremely serious for Scotland and for our entire planet. It has been said today, Presiding Officer, by the TUC, that some 800,000 jobs are at risk across the UK because of the change plan by Mr Sunak. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what analysis the Scottish Government will undertake to see what impact there will be in Scotland, how we can alleviate that situation and what the Scottish Government will do to try and boost business confidence to ensure that we have investment from companies here and abroad? Kevin Stewart is absolutely right. Not only have we had the spectacle of climate change and its impacts ripping across the globe over the summer, not only is there an abandonment of environmental principles and ambition, but there is also economic illiteracy from the UK Government. Not for the first time, we cannot deliver a just transition if we are last to do it. Scotland is once again being held back both in terms of our environmental ambitions and our economic ones. We need to only look at some of the comments from industry yesterday. Our business needs three things from the UK Government—ambition, commitment and consistency. A relaxation of 2030 would undermine all of those. That is exactly what has transpired. I assure Kevin Stewart that, as I do members across the chamber, my officials and I are now urgently undertaking work to assess all of the matters that he rightly raises as it pertains to our climate goals and the opportunities for jobs and skills in Scotland. The SNP provides a perfect example of why net zero targets need to be realistic, which is what our Prime Minister recognises. The SNP Government missed its own climate change targets in eight of the last 12 years. It is failing to roll out enough electric vehicle charging points, and it is failing to say where the £33 billion will come from to decarbonise our buildings in Scotland. So when will this Government start being honest with people and explain to them how much the journey to net zero will cost them and accept that not everyone can afford a swift transition? It is just incredible to hear the Scottish Tories try to lecture me and the Scottish Government on this just now. Just on one of the areas that he mentioned, let me remind him on EV charging that, thanks to the action of this Government, Scotland now has the most comprehensive network of EV charging anywhere in the UK outside of London. That is just one demonstration of the success that we have had to date. Let me be clear, because there is a cynical line being taken here, which is that ordinary people cannot afford to worry about climate change. It will always be the most vulnerable in our society who will suffer from any inaction on climate change. Equally, the interventions that we make in some of the areas that the UK Prime Minister abandoned yesterday in transport and heating buildings have the opportunity to improve the lives of ordinary people, with, for example, warmer and more energy-efficient homes. I acutely understand the balance between those two issues, but when things are challenging, you do not turn your back, you work harder, and that is exactly what this Government is doing, rising to net zero via a just transition. I call Liam McArthur. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Ishi Sunak's decision to roll back on his environmental commitments has caused widespread confusion and anger, including among many within the business communities that the Cabinet Secretary has acknowledged. Facing defeat at the next election, the Prime Minister has embarked on a reckless scorched earth policy. This Government was already regularly failing to meet its climate targets, but Mr Sunak's decision has certainly made that task more difficult. In light of yesterday's decision, but also the repeated calls from the UK Climate Change Committee, can the cabinet secretary advise the chamber when she expects to bring forward a revised and detailed action plan for getting Scotland on track to meet our targets? It had been my intention, and my officials and I had been working on developing a draft of Scotland's climate change plan to lay in the Parliament this year. There is no doubt that this 11th hour significant policy revisal of which we had absolutely no warning. I know that the UK Government Minister has thus far reached out to discuss with me. There is no doubt that that will require time to consider the implications, and, as I already said in response to Sarah Boyack, that will have an effect on when I can lay the draft plan. We have all paid the price of Liz Truss's extremist economic agenda, and now we will all pay the price of Sunak's extremist anti-climate agenda, because businesses have invested, households have begun to prepare, but we have all been let down. The Prime Minister has incredibly managed to unite the Ford Motor Company and Greenpeace in condemnation of his climate climb down. Will the cabinet secretary now request urgent advice from the UK Climate Change Committee ahead of the drafting of Scotland's next climate change plan so that we can deliver the policies with ambition, in the words of Ford, ambition, commitment and consistency that we all need? I echo the sentiments of Mark Ruskell. I note that the Climate Change Committee, who are obviously statutory advisers to both Governments, have already commented on the announcements from yesterday, making it clear that they consider it will make it more difficult for the UK to meet their targets. I will await what I am sure will be further analysis from them. Equally as we do the work to assess the impact on Scotland, I will, as ever, reach out to the Committee on Climate Change, as I will Scotland's Just Transition Commission, of course, the first in the world to be focusing its work on the delivery of net zero in a fair way that leaves no one behind. The Tory's lukewarm commitment to dealing with the existential threat to our planet is now beyond question. With Labour's flip-flopping on climate, the alternative to Tory intransigence is red Tory U-turns. How will the Scottish Government make it clear that Scotland's dedication to the future of our planet must not undermine by Westminster's indifferent attitude to climate change? I echo Jackie Dunbar's sentiments. The difficult truth of the matter is that Scotland, much to the chagran of this Government, has two Governments. One of them retains a great deal of economic and fiscal power over Scotland. It also has power over energy and a great deal of the principal levers that we would wish to use to decarbonise our economy and our society and I have significant concerns about the implications for Scotland of what was announced yesterday, but we are a serious Government. The UK Prime Minister may be content to do late-night press briefings and back-of-an-envelope policy developments that leave business and industry reeling, but we are a serious Government dealing seriously with serious matters, so I will take the time that is required to look into these matters and come back to Parliament with an update. I just want to clarify for the record that the Labour commitment is for £28 billion by the mid-term off a Labour Government should we get elected for the records. Can I just gently remind Ms Boyack that points of order are not for such matters? I confirm to the chamber that there are no questions to be put as a result of today's business, so that concludes decision time and I close this meeting.