Carol Mochan turns to the Sandyford Clinic announcing it will no longer provide puberty blockers to 16 and 17-year-olds referred over gender identity issues.

The Labour MSP asks if this decision was due to any intervention from the Scottish government and she calls for a statement in the parliament.

The first minister refers to the review by Dr Hilary Cass and quotes her as saying the "toxicity of the debate is perpetuated by adults" and the "children are being used as a football".

The FM insists compassion must at the forefront of everything the Scottish government does.

Fergus Ewing brings up a 'streamlined' process being brought up for quashing postmasters convictions, and asks why the Lord Advocate has not advanced this further.

Ewing says that legislation, even in draft form, should be published, rather than "letting it drift on".

The first minister says work is still going on regarding that legislation, and that he is hoping to secure "reasonable" amendments to the Westminster government's own legislation, to avoid creating differences between treatment of victims in England and Wales and Scotland.

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The Post Office Horizon scandal has been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

People running post offices were accused of crimes like theft, false accounting or embezzlement on the basis of a faulty IT system called Horizon.

Some were convicted and sent to prison, others lost their livelihoods and reputations. Their plight was highlighted in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

A new law is being introduced at Westminster to clear the majority of victims in England and Wales. The Scottish government says this should apply across the UK, but is working to develop its own equivalent legislation.

Read more here.

Pauline McNeill raises the Post Office scandal, and asks whether some of these "miscarriages of justice" could be dealt with quicker in Scotland.

She also asks if the Crown Office will be responsible for some of the actions they took in pursuing prosecutions.

The first minister replies by saying that some of the cases in Scotland "may be more complex" than those in England, as the Crown Office had often "been chasing" the Post Office for further information in certain cases.

He adds that they also want to avoid legitimate convictions being overturned at the same time, if the issue was dealt with too quickly.

Tory MSP Craig Hoy asks what the Scottish government’s response is to reports of significant financial pressures within NHS Lothian and NHS Borders.

The FM replies that this year's budget provides an increase of over half a billion pounds for NHS boards, but he accepts that the system is under extreme pressure.

Hoy says NHS Lothian announced the permanent closure of beds at the Edington Cottage Hospital, the Abbey Residential Home and the Belhaven Hospital in Dunbar and calls on the FM to take responsibility.

Instead, Yousaf accuses the Tory MSP of "audacity" and "crocodile tears for our NHS" and points to cuts in capital funding.

Keith Brown asks about the possible impact on the seasonal workforce in Scotland due to changes to UK migration rules, particularly within the soft fruit sector.

The first minister says it is an example of Westminster decisions "working against" Scotland, and could cause damage to the rural economy.

He concludes by saying only an independent Scotland can have a "principled approach" to migration.

Tory MSP Maurice Golden points out that eight of the Scottish government's last 12 emissions targets failed, "an embarrassing record".

The first minister reiterates his "brass neck" jibe from earlier but this time saying the Tories have decided to approve hundreds of new oil and gas licences.

He accuses the party of opposing every single climate change measure the Scottish government brings forward.

Mark Poynting
Climate and environment researcher, BBC Verify

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The UK has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.

Net zero means a country takes as much of these planet-warming gases - such as carbon dioxide - out of the atmosphere as it puts in.

The UK has been relatively successful in cutting its emissions so far. But the government's independent advisers, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), have expressed concerns that the UK could miss its future targets.

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Green MSP Arianne Burgess also goes on the net zero targets, asking how the Scottish government plans to accelerate action to ensure that Scotland achieves net zero by 2045.

This leads to some laughter from those in the chamber and the presiding officer calls for courteous, respectful behaviour.

The first minister again says he won't pre-empt the detail to be given by Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan in a ministerial statement at 14:25.

Remember you can watch that statement with us here on this live page.

"We remain absolutely committed to ending Scotland's contribution in a just and fair way by 2045," Yousaf says.

Great leaps forward" are needed in Scotland to help tackle climate change, former first minister Alex Salmond has said.

Ministers are expected to confirm later that the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030 has been dropped.

Speaking in Aberdeen, Alba Party leader Mr Salmond told BBC Scotland News the last 10 years had seen targets stretched and performance being stopped.

He said that moving to carbon capture was one way forward.

The first minister accuses the Labour leader of having a "brass neck" in response, referring to Labour's decision at national level to row back on a £28bn spending commitment if they took power at Westminster.

He again reiterates that there is no reversal on Scotland's commitment to reach net zero by 2045, and claims Labour's plans are "reckless", and would risk North Sea jobs.

The climate change exchanges continue as Sarwar claims the first minister “supports a tax on workers but not on oil and gas giants making record profits”, referring to the recent dispute over a windfall tax on energy companies.

He says the current “failings” will mean higher costs, and that the SNP are “selling off Scotland’s sea bed on the cheap”, while insisting that Labour would create “over 50,000 clean powered jobs” if they were in power.

He concludes by saying the SNP are “letting people down every single day”.

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Net zero means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. CO2 is released when oil, gas and coal are burned in homes, factories and to power transport. Methane is produced through farming and landfill.

These gases increase global temperatures by trapping extra energy in the Earth's atmosphere.

Meanwhile, rapid deforestation across the world means there are fewer trees to absorb CO2.

Under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, 197 countries - including the UK - agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C by 2100.

To achieve this, CO2 emissions need to fall by nearly half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, according to the UN's climate body, the IPCC. But these emissions remain at record highs, external.

Read more here

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Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions.

Over the last decade, the world was on average around 1.2C warmer than during the late 19th Century.

It has now been confirmed that global warming exceeded 1.5C across the 12 month period between February 2023 and January 2024. That followed 2023 being declared the warmest year on record.

The temperature increase was driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather phenomenon.

Read more of this simple guide here.

Sarwar continues his critical comments on what he calls the government “rowing back” on climate change targets, and claims the Scottish Greens must be the “only Green party in the world that supports scrapping climate change targets”.

The Labour leader then says that “more and more people” are asking "what the point is" of the current government.

Yousaf hits back by citing a number of environmental policies that he accuses Labour of not supporting.

Over rising noise in the chamber, the first minister says the upcoming statement will present a timetable for “accelerated action” and that any failure to support these plans from parties that “demand action” would be “hypocrisy”.

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Climate change has been a key part of Scottish government policy in recent years.

In 2019 the Scottish Parliament passed legislation to speed up the rate of decarbonisation, although the 75% target by 2030 was 5% more than experts had recommended.

That target was in contrast to the UK government's set aim of a reduction of 68% by the same date.

Two years later, Glasgow hosted the Cop 26 conference, with world leaders descending on the city to discuss the environment, and last year Humza Yousaf declared that Scotland could provide "moral leadership" to the world regarding climate change.

However, in 2022 the Climate Change Committee (CCC) - which provides independent advice to ministers said that Scotland had lost its lead over the rest of the UK in tackling the issue.

In March the same group stated that the 2030 target was now unreachable.

Today's announcement will likely lead to questions being asked of both the SNP and, in particular, the Scottish Greens.

Anas Sarwar's first question is focused on the upcoming climate change statement.

The Labour leader quotes the first minister's criticism of the Westminster government rolling back it's climate pledges, and asks why he is now "following the Tories lead".

Mr Yousaf says this is untrue, and that the Labour leader has been "misleading" about the government's position.

He brings up the 2045 target still being in place, and favourably compares the SNP and Green government to the Labour administration in Wales.

He asks Labour "not to run away" from showing ambition by backing their proposals.

The first minister accuses the Tories of "deliberate misinformation" and ignoring what the law actually does.

Yousaf adds that there have been "many bad faith actors in relation to the Hate Crime Act".

The Scottish Tory leader reiterates that legisltion is "bad law" and it puts freedom of speech at risk.

Ross cites the example of a pensioner who was taken by the police to a station over a dispute with her neighbour.

She was not charged and had not committed an offence, but she was "punished by the process" he adds.

"Public opinon is already against Humza Yousaf's law," he says.

Douglas Ross says it is a disgrace the FM is unwilling to listen to the voices from the police.

The Scottish Tory leader argues that the hate crime legislation is vague and poorly defined and should be repealed.

Humza Yousaf insists Ross is not listening to the victims of hate crime.

The FM says out of the 8,984 hate crime complaints in the first couple of weeks, at least 95% have been deemed not to be crimes.

He adds that for the new stirring-up offences that behaviour has to be threatening or abusive and intended to stir up hatred.

The legislation protects peope from hatred whilst protecting freedom of speech, the FM adds