Our campaign successes include:
- A ban on fracking in Scotland resulting from over 60,000 responses to the Government’s consultation!
- Government pledge to phase out sales of fossil-fuelled vehicles by 2032
- A commitment by the Government to set up a Just Transition Commission and a Scottish National Investment Bank
- Plans to implement Low Emission Zones in Scotland’s four biggest cities by 2020 (with Glasgow’s to be in place before the end of 2018)
- A doubling of the walking and cycling budget to £80m a year
- A ban on underground coal gasification in Scotland
- A new Clean Air Strategy for Scotland and a commitment to Low Emission Zones
- Stopping a new supermarket being built on Edinburgh’s most polluted street
- Doubling the target for community renewable energy from 500MW to 1GW
- RBS stopping funding extreme Mountain-Top Removal coal extraction
- Forth Energy giving up on its plans for big biomass power stations in Leith and Dundee
- Stopping a new coal-fired power station in Ayrshire
- A change in Scots law on who has the right to have a case heard in court
- The 2009 Scottish Climate Act – the best piece of climate change legislation in the industrialised world
- Scottish Government backing for no nuclear power stations or GM crops in Scotland
- Stopping plans for a super-quarry on the Isle of Harris from going ahead
- Scotland’s first law for Freedom of Information
- Increased public participation in planning
- A zero waste policy in Scottish Government
- An organic food and farming action plan
- Increased recycling provision
- Tougher rules on opencast mining
- Better strategic environmental assessment
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