Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’

Climate promises are hard to keep. Scotland is the latest, perhaps most surprising example.Scotland, an early industrial power and coal-burning behemoth, was also an early adopter of an ambitious and legally binding government target to slow down climate change. It had promised to pare back its emissions of planet-heating greenhouse gases by 75 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.This week, its Net Zero…