The Scottish Government’s Climate Change Delivery Plan sets out the high level measures required in each sector to meet Scotland's statutory climate change targets, to 2020 and in the long term. The Plan sets out what is required to be done now, and in the medium and long term, to achieve emissions reduction targets.  It is a precursor to the more detailed statutory report on Proposals and Policies to be produced in 2010, which will set out how the Scottish Government will meet their annual targets out to 2022.

The delivery plan describes four transformational outcomes which the Scottish Government is working towards, and they are:

• A largely de-carbonised electricity generation sector by 2030,
• A largely de-carbonised heat sector by 2050 with significant progress by 2030
• Almost complete decarbonisation of road transport by 2050 with significant progress by 2030
• A comprehensive approach to ensure that carbon (including the cost of carbon) is fully factored into strategic and local decisions about rural land use.

Delivery of these transformational outcomes will be considered in five sector themes:

• Electricity Demand and Supply;
• Heat Demand and Supply;
• Transport;
• Waste;
• Rural Land Use.

These five sectors present the 2020 Climate Group with an opportunity to align our efforts to challenge actions to reach the targets and demonstrate leadership.