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Energy bills are rising again – fossil fuels are the culprit
Households energy bills are rising again but we can break the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry on our finances
Calling on pension funds to face climate risks
We protested outside a big pensions conference to tell pensions fund managers to face the climate risk.
Join our National Meetings
We’re kicking off monthly national meetings for our movement to learn, share and plot together.
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Scotland can ban fracking: Here’s how
Mary explains how Scotland can ban fracking
Let’s be climate leaders in 2017
Many people would rather forget 2016 and its catalogue of mistakes, disasters and deaths. The election of Trump poses a real threat to environmental progress and climate action. Richard looks ahead to a busy 2017 for climate campaigning and getting Scotland on the path to a fossil free future.
Meet the young Scot who is walking 3,100 miles across Europe
19-year-old Stefan Lee Goodwin is walking a mind-blowing 5,000 km (3,100 miles) from John O’Groats to the shores of Bulgaria’s Black Sea, and he’s raising money for charities, including Friends of the Earth Scotland, along the way!
Splashes of green amongst the gloom: This year’s environmental victories for Scotland
For many of us, 2016 seemed like a particularly tough year. It brought some major environmental setbacks, culminating in the election of a new US president with an extremely regressive environmental agenda. However, this year was not all doom and gloom for the environment…
Scottish conference on ‘How to Get a Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy’
Trades unions activists and environmentalists came together for a conference in Glasgow to discuss how a Just Transition could bring a new, clean, better balanced and more just economy. Pressure is on the Scottish Government to take a much more hands-on approach to both economic development and climate change plans.
Why is the Bank of England worried about climate change?
In the last few years the UK’s central bank has made a number of major contributions to the debate around climate change.
A third of Scottish Universities divest as Abertay and UWS join the party
Student campaigning organisation People & Planet published the results of their University League, confirming that two further Scottish universities have divested entirely from fossil fuels.
Marrakech blog – still waiting for action on climate change
For a while this meeting looked like it might be that rarest of things, a UN climate conference that actually finished on time rather than running into Saturday or even Sunday. But, true to UN form, talks broke down last night.
Marrakech blog – Paris Agreement gets going but much to resolve
Ministers and heads of state came to the COP today. Finance has been a big issue with rich nations shirking responsibilities and scepticism that more money or action will emerge.
