Throughout this Council term, Scottish Greens have led on the climate and nature emergencies, pushing them to very top of the city's agenda.

Not only have we given impetus to Glasgow’s long-awaited Climate Plan, which finally saw the light of day last week, but we’ve already started putting it into action.

The plan sets a target for net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Achieving that will require the kind of urgent climate action the science demands, and it’s a direct result of pressure from the Greens. The SNP’s first draft proposed a 2045 target – a date so distant it could be used to excuse inaction.

The science is clear; we have less than ten years. We need the vast majority of emissions to disappear this decade. It’s an emergency, and we need to act like it.

That’s why Green councillors have used our influence, in a Council where no one group has a majority, to secure action to cut emissions.

Just take this week, for example. We heard news of 30 new car-free school zones, doubling their number, as well as 259 new plots for growing local food, in every part of the city. The council’s Contracts committee approved buying 19 zero emission bin lorries – the largest such investment in Europe – which will take some of our most polluting vehicles off the road.

What about the week before? Well, work to develop a Green New Deal economic plan got started, and the Strathclyde Pension Fund took a big step towards divestment from dirty fossil fuels.

These things have all happened as the result of budget deals won by Green councillors in the past two years.

And there’s more to come. We’re looking forward to seeing the fruits of investments in a schools bike library scheme, supporting nature in our parks, and in ‘greening’ dozens of tenement back courts.

There is of course, much, much more that must be done. We need active travel and public transport networks that meet people’s needs. We need low carbon homes for everyone. We need a national park city, where nature thrives around every corner.

We need action on all of these things, and more, immediately, all at once.

The scale of that task cannot be understated, and because of that, we need a higher level of scrutiny over this plan than anything else the Council does. We still have concerns that the SNP wants to avoid that by hiving responsibility away to its unaccountable Sustainable Glasgow group.

That would be wrong, because there remain areas where the Council needs constructive challenge.

Greens have exposed how the Council has no plan to replace 22 oil-fired boilers in our schools. We think it is unacceptable to wait until June 2023 for a clean air zone, that doesn't even directly address the climate emergency. And we believe it's long past time to bring the city's bus network fully under public control.

Glasgow’s hosting of the COP26 climate summit is an unprecedented opportunity for change. The Scottish Greens will keep on striving, not just for a credible climate plan, but for bold and necessary climate action that transforms our economy and serves people and planet.