Dumfries and Galloway Council says it is 'in the middle of the pack' among Scotland's 32 local authorities on net zero progress. The admission came at a council audit committee, where a councillor asked for evidence that targets are being met rather than just assumed. The council's Climate Change Duties Report shows emissions fell from 48,992 tonnes in 2017/18 to 18,340 tonnes, a cut of more than half and about 63 percent of the way to carbon neutrality. The council revised its target in March 2024 and now aims to be carbon neutral by 2040. Officers are also developing a separate corporate risk register entry to cover the acute and chronic impacts of climate change on the region. For anyone tracking Scottish local authority climate delivery, the detail is in the benchmarking and the new risk framework, not the headline ranking.
