Foreword from Sir John Elvidge -- Foreword from the Carbon Trust -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Carbon management strategy: context and drivers for carbon management; our low carbon vision; strategic themes; targets and objectives -- Emissions baseline and projections: scope; baseline; projections and value at stake -- Carbon management projects: projects identified and quantified; projected achievement towards target -- Carbon management plan financing: assumptions -- Actions to embed carbon management in your organisation: corporate strategy, embedding CO2 saving across your organisation; data management, measuring the difference, measuring the benefit; policy alignment, saving CO2 across your operations; responsibility, being clear that CO2 is everyone's job -- Programme Management of the CM Programme: the programme board, strategic ownership and oversight; the carbon management team, delivering the projects; ongoing stakeholder management; annual progress review -- Appendix A: carbon management matrix, embedding -- Appendix B: definition of projects

Outlines the methods by which the Scottish Government will meet their target of an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050. Short term goals to meet this aim are a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020, for which a 15% reduction in overall emissions from energy use, business travel and waste production is required by 2014.