THE Scottish Greens are facing internal calls for an emergency meeting to discuss the continuation of the governing agreement with the SNP.

It comes after Thursday saw the Scottish Government ditch a key climate target and back the pausing of prescriptions of puberty blockers for young trans people – both moves which have angered Green members.

Scottish Green Party councillor Chas Booth has written to the party’s executive, demanding an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) be held “as soon as reasonably possible to consider withdrawing from the Bute House Agreement”.

It comes in the wake of Thursday’s announcement that the Scottish Government is scrapping the target of reducing emissions by 75% by 2030, with Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan conceding the goal is “out of reach”.

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Booth’s demand comes at the same time as the party’s LGBT wing also launched a petition questioning the future of the powersharing deal after the prescription of puberty blockers in Scotland was paused.

The Rainbow Greens hit out following the announcement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the prescription of puberty blockers for new patients at the gender identity service based at the Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow would be paused.

Councillor Anthony Carroll backed a discussion, saying on Twitter/X: "Ultimately Scottish Green members decide if MSPs are in Government.

"With the council tax freeze, climate targets scrapped, and MSPs who run rampant with transphobia, the SNP have shown a lot of contempt in the past year.

"I think its time for members to have a say on the BHA again."

Guy Ingerson, a Scottish Green General Election candidate in Aberdeen, also said he backed the moves from both the Rainbow Greens and Booth.

He wrote on Twitter/X: "Having taken time to process the events of yesterday and the discussion that took place between members and our MSPs, I will be supporting the calls for an EGM made by  @CllrChasBooth and the @rainbowgreens.

"Our party needs to take stock and discuss the continuation of the BHA."

Some figures in the SNP have already spoken out against the Bute House Agreement – which brought Greens into government for the first time anywhere in the UK when it was agreed following the 2021 Holyrood election.

The deal crucially gave the SNP a majority in the Scottish Parliament when its voters there were combined with those of the seven Green MSPs, but more recently figures in Humza Yousaf’s party, including former leadership candidate Kate Forbes and party stalwart Fergus Ewing, have criticised it.

Greens have appeared more reluctant to question the agreement, which gave ministerial posts to the party’s two co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.

However, in the wake of the scrapping of the 2030 emissions target, Booth hit out.

Posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Leith councillor said while he was “never a fan” of the agreement, he had “accepted the democratic vote of party members” to go into the powersharing arrangement with the SNP.

But in the wake of McAllan’s statement, he said: “I’m forced to conclude our party is being used as a figleaf for the SNP’s woeful and inexcusable climate inaction.

“I have therefore written to the chair of SGP party executive to ask them to call an EGM as soon as reasonably possible to consider withdrawing from the Bute House Agreement.”

He said there had been “anger” on a party members’ call on Thursday evening as a result of the Greens being “part of a Government abandoning climate targets”.

A spokesperson for the Scottish Greens said: “The co-operation agreement that saw Green politicians enter government for the first time anywhere in the UK, which has been repeatedly endorsed and voted for by members of both parties, has been the catalyst for driving progressive environmental change over the last two-and-a-half years, including moving from targets to an acceleration of climate action with an evidence based route map to 2045.

“As a democratic party we encourage members to engage and participate, and there are a number of ways open for people to do that.”