Scottish Government Publish 2011 Spending Review

• Commit £200 million to the Fuel Poverty and Domestic Energy Efficiency programmes over the next three years. The funds will also aim to leverage additional funding from energy companies and other sources
• Commit £69 million to reduce congestion and support better public transport, active travel, low carbon vehicles and freight modal shift
• Use the Scottish Futures Fund to provide additional support for emissions reduction measures, with £100 million for Warmer Homes and Future Transport over the course of this Parliament;
• Enhance the Community Renewable Energy Scheme to aim to reach a target of 500 megawatts of community and locally-owned renewable energy by 2020
• Improve the energy efficiency of the public estate and the school estate, e.g. through improving energy efficiency with the new HMP Grampian, and the pilot project to deliver high quality, sustainable designs for the new Eastwood and Lasswade High Schools
• New buildings standards in place from 2013 with the aim of cutting building emissions by a further 30% from the requirements set down in 2010
• Improve the efficiency of existing infrastructure - e.g., Scottish Water's continued programme to reduce leakage, and its installation of small-scale hydro generation turbines within existing water assets
• To work towards a 70% target for recycled waste and a maximum of 5% to be sent to be landfill by 2025; to support businesses to use resources more efficiently; and to help families and individuals to reduce their waste - e.g. by cutting food waste