The Greens' Scottish election manifesto at-a-glance

The Greens have unveiled their manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election on 7 May.

Below are some of the main policies featured in the document.

• Tax wealth and polluting industries to pay for public services
• Free bus travel for everyone in Scotland
• Expand funded childcare
• Reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045

• Introduce 1,140 hours of funded childcare to all two-year-olds in Scotland and 570 hours of funded childcare to every baby aged six months and up
• Back a comprehensive Universal Basic Income pilot
• Replace council tax with a residential property tax
• Establish regional green skills hubs linking colleges, employers and unions to guaranteed routes into low-carbon work
• Ensure all devolved social security payments increase annually, at least in-line with rising costs
• Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40, with the aim of at least £55 by 2030, and offer supplements to the poorest families
• Introduce automatic payments, with benefits paid without applications, using information already held by public authorities to determine eligibility

• 40,000 new green energy jobs in the next five years with public funding directed to offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, green supply chains and renewables manufacturing
• Introduce frequent flyer levy, carbon emission land tax, stadium levy and a cruise ship and "point of entry" levy for tourism
• Add surcharges to businesses which cause harm to the environment and communities - including gambling firms, large online retailers and absentee landlords
• Explore further levies on arms companies, fireworks sellers, short-term lets, fee-paying private schools and fossil fuel terminals, plants and pipelines
• Develop proposals for a Scottish wealth tax
• Create a new business rates band on properties valued at more than £1m, such as the Barclays and JP Morgan facilities in Glasgow
• Four-day working week pilots for the public sector
• Close the loopholes which allow the monarchy, foreign militaries and property speculators to pay nothing in land and buildings transaction tax

• End all charges for dental treatment and gradually bring dental practices fully into NHS
• Increase GPs so there is one for every 1,000 patients and, once those GPs are in place, offer 15-minute appointments
• Nurse-to-patient ratios to prevent NHS staff from being overburdened
• £15 per hour minimum wage for social care workers
• A long-term, sustainable funding model for hospice care
• Call on the UK government to remove its block on gender recognition legislation and update it with "international best practice"
• Set up safe drug consumption facilities across Scotland, with Edinburgh and Dundee the priorities
• Scrap charges for non-residential care

• A pilot giving asylum seekers the right to work and ending the use of hotels to house them

• Scotland must be allowed to choose its constitutional future
• Use citizens' assemblies in public decision making
• Pilot a community wealth fund to support locally-owned green enterprise, including wealth generated from renewables

• Require that all new homes meet net-zero standards, be connected to zero-carbon public transport, not be built in flood risk areas, and provide green spaces for residents and the local community
• Deliver fully funded repairs or rehousing for those affected by RAAC
• Remove licences from poor-performing property factors
• Remove exemption for mid-market and build-to-rent properties from rent controls
• Increase the notice period for eviction from a tenancy to four months, and ban evictions based on the landlord selling or moving themselves or their family into the property for the first 12 months of a tenancy
• Restore the ban on most evictions between November and March

• Expand the presumption against short prison sentences, for non-violent offenders in particular
• Raise funding for rehabilitative alternatives to custody
• Introduce a legal presumption against remand
• Transfer mental health crisis responses from Police Scotland to community crisis services

• Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a play-based kindergarten stage for three-to-six-year-olds
• Free school meals for all primary pupils, and secondary pupils who receive the Scottish Child Payment, with the long-term goals of universal provision
• End the routine use of homework in primary schools and reduce the use of exams in secondary schools
• Personal and social education including consent-based sex education, LGBT+ inclusivity, mental health, and personal finances, co-designed by young people
• Free breakfast clubs in every primary and ASN school
• A legal cap on the cost of school uniforms

• £600m investment programme in onshore and offshore wind, tidal and solar
• Pay for people to install heat pumps, solar panels with linked battery storage and other green heating technologies on their homes
• Ambitious nature recovery targets
• Reforest Scotland's hills and glens
• Cancel the Scottish government's exclusive agreement with Flamingo Land to develop a site at Loch Lomond
• Ecocide law criminalising severe environmental harm
• Pause new salmon farms or the expansion of existing sites until the industry demonstrably improves fish welfare

• Free bus travel for everyone in Scotland. Under-30s would get free fares immediately, with a £2 cap imposed for others during a transition period
• Bring the bus network under local control, with members of the public to be given the chance to invest in bus bonds
• Integrated ticketing system – ScotCard – setting zonal pricing with daily caps for all public transport journeys
• A national Scottish Rail Card, providing discounts for everyone who is ineligible for the existing railcard schemes
• Scrap first-class ScotRail tickets
• Expand the rail network, including potential new stations in Newburgh, Tomatin, Halbeath and Hawick
• Ensure every child leaving primary school has had the opportunity to learn to cycle and swim

• Ensure coherence across all Scottish government activities to ensure ministers are not contributing to global crises they are trying to solve, for example by contributing to humanitarian support in warzones where the damage has been caused by arms dealers in receipt of Scottish government funding