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The Scottish Parliament voted on data centres this week

Making sense of the Scottish Parliament vote on data centres

What the hell happened with data centres yesterday?

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Iran War shows we must chart a path away from fossil fuels

If we were generating energy in the UK with reliable, affordable renewables we would be far more insulated from these external shocks. 

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A bus fare cap won't solve all the problems with public transport

Why public ownership is the answer for Scotland’s buses, and our climate 

Putting public transport into public hands is a no brainer – for people, communities, workers and the planet. 

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Raising the alarm on the climate emergency

Action in Edinburgh to highlight the emergency of climate change and urge greater action from the Scottish Government.

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Keeping up the climate pressure

19,000 people have urged Scottish Govt to raise their climate ambition. What happens next and how you can get involved?

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Hurricane Irma: “These heavy polluters ought to take responsibility for climate change.”

As Hurricane Irma devastates Caribbean islands, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda calls on rich countries to take responsibility for climate change.

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The greenest ever Programme for Government?

Scotland’s new Programme for Government contains a number of very significant steps forward on climate change and the environment.

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It’s time for Scotland’s climate change sequel

A decade after Al Gore first brought climate change to the big screen, he’s back in cinemas now with the follow up, ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’. This next chapter comes at a time when Scotland is writing the sequel to our own climate story, but will our new Climate Act be a blockbuster or a flop?

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Young FoE Europe visit Dutch gasfields

90 young activists from all corners of Europe to participate in the Young Friends of the Earth Europe Summer Camp in Drouwen, Netherlands. They visited people in Groningen suffering from earthquakes caused by gas extraction nearby.

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Let’s not give Trump what he wants on climate

You may have seen the news this week that Trump’s US Department of Agriculture has ordered all staff to stop using the term ‘climate change’ and not to talk about…

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The environmental dimension of Brexit

The European Union is far from perfect but it has been the source of almost all environmental legislation and standards in Scotland. 

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Who will really benefit from the new Air Departure Tax?

MSPs will today approve the Air Departure Tax (Scotland) Bill, giving the Scottish ministers the power to set air travel tax for the first time. But who will be the winners and losers be from these changes?

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