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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.
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We’re kicking off monthly national meetings for our movement to learn, share and plot together.
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Frack Free Lancashire – but what does this mean for Scotland?
Last week’s decision by Lancashire County Council to reject fracking will give a big shove to Scotland’s current moratorium in the direction of becoming a full ban Cuadrilla’s applications to…
The People’s Test on Climate
Friends of the Earth groups all around the world are at the forefront of the fight against climate change. In Scotland they are encouraging Local Pension Funds to divest from…
Fossil Free pensions: June brings wee green shoots of reform
Wee green shoots of reform are poking out of the soil this month for Scotland’s public pensions as the debate on responsible investment of Scotland’s public pensions moved forward on…
How should we fund renewable energy in the developing world?
In conventional centralised energy systems, citizens are at best reduced to consumers who generate profits for large energy companies and their shareholders. At worst, they are forcibly removed from their…
North Sea – transition from oil jobs to clean energy jobs essential
Last week the Pope produced his much-trailed encyclical on the environment. The core of this policy pronouncement was a strong message on the moral case to act on climate change. A…
Divest and reinvest: 6 local governments that are innovating for sustainability
By Stuart Anderson. “The fossil fuel divestment movement is the fastest growing divestment campaign in history with over 500 active divestment campaigns underway at universities, cities, churches, banks, and other…
Scotland still needs a Green New Deal
By Matthew Crighton, Friends of the Earth Scotland The need for a Green New Deal remains strong in Scotland – fuel poverty, unemployment, increased casualisation, missing climate change targets. It’s…
7 things we learned from the Supreme Court’s air pollution judgment
The Supreme Court has ordered the UK Government to draw up new air pollution plans by in the culmination of a legal battle brought by environmental campaigners ClientEarth against the…
UK Government Spouts a lot of Hot Air in Nitrogen Dioxide Case
The environmental lawyers (pictured below) argued that the UK Government is breaking European law because it did not achieve safe levels of Nitrogen Dioxide by 2010, and because it failed to…
