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Why climate activists are standing with Grangemouth oil workers

The company’s plans to shut the oil refinery epitomize environmental and climate injustice.  

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Nurdles: The tiny pellets polluting Scotland

The plastics industry is polluting Scotland with nurdles, harming the environment and communities. We investigate the problem

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This year’s divestment campaign highlights

Looking back at what the divestment campaign has been doing this year.

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Planning for a Just Transition has to be part of Scotland’s climate strategy

Scotland’s new Climate Bill focuses attention on when we become zero carbon, but also on the ‘What? and How?’ of getting there. The idea of a ‘Just Transition’, originating within the trade union movement, can ensure this process enhances social justice, protects livelihoods and creates a fairer and more equal nation.

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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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An Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland

We are working with Scottish Environment LINK to build support for an Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland which could play an important role navigating the complexities of the legal and planning system.

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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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Come on Scotland, time to step on it with transport!

The UK Government’s plan to phase out fossil fuel vehicles in 23 years time is not good enough for the many people whose lives are impacted on a daily basis by toxic air now.

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Looking back at our Summer Weekender

Our first-ever Summer Weekender was a big success, bringing together over 100 people in the beautiful settings of Wiston Lodge for three days of ideas and action.

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The Summer Weekender is nearly here!

Our biggest ever residential activism gathering will take place in Biggar, South Lanarkshire from this Friday 14th to Sunday 16th July! Take a look at what to expect.

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UK’s second largest trade union votes to divest pensions

Great news as UNISON, one of the two largest trade unions in the UK, adopts a formal policy to support divestment from fossil fuels.

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