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The SNP manifesto’s climate and nature policies – the verdict
Does the SNP have good green policies? We’ve analysed their 2024 manifesto to find out if they deserve yo
Scotland’s new circular economy law
MSPs have voted to approve Scotland’s new circular economy law! Parliament has taken over a year to scrutinise and review the new law, and the final debate took place yesterday…
Dozens of organisations demand Scottish Ministers reject polluting Peterhead gas plans
Pressure is growing on the Scottish Government to reject plans that would lock in climate pollution and high energy bills.
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Blog 2: COP19, Warsaw 18 November 13
The Polish police are very useful to those of us with a poor sense of direction navigating between conference venues and demonstrations. It’s hard to miss the Robo-cop lookalikes with…
COP19, Warsaw 16 November
Arrived in Warsaw on Friday afternoon as the first week of the annual climate talks was drawing to a close. Sadly it seems that despite the disastrous but impeccably timed…
Nuclear power, still no thanks
I grew up in Devon and my father fought against the proposed new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point in neighbouring Somerset, including attending the lengthy public inquiry in the late 1980s. Sadly, the government learnt from this experience and made sure the more recent public inquiry wasn’t allowed to talk about big issues like whether we actually need new nuclear reactors.
Nuclear is the ultimate unsustainable form of energy, leaving wastes which are dangerous for a thousand generations to come. During the first Hinkley inquiry I saw a poster stating ‘If the Romans had had nuclear reactors, we’d still be guarding the waste.’ I thought this was a great way to bring home the absurdity of nuclear. It was only later that I realised that of course the poster should really have said Cro-Magnon Man instead of the Romans, since we’ll need to be guarding that waste not for 2,000 years but for 25,000 years.
Pro-frackers get hot under the collar
A guest blog by Tony Bosworth, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Friends of the Earth England, Wales & Northern Ireland It wasn’t the best start to a Sunday morning – a…
A wasted decade
Last year Glasgow and Dundee councils had to declare the whole of each city as pollution zones. Last month Edinburgh added new zones and extended the existing ones. In almost…
Must try harder on climate
The warmth of the last few days remind me that May can be one of the nicest months in Edinburgh, and it makes a nice change from the cooler-than-average March…
What has nature ever done for us? Part 3 of 3
Tony Juniper is the former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and has just published What has nature ever done for us? This is the…
What has nature ever done for us? Part 2 of 3.
Tony Juniper is the former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and has just published What has nature ever done for us? This is the…
Reaction to RBS Sustainability Report: ‘Deliberate Manipulation of the Truth’
Today the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are pleased to release their annual sustainability report. However, when we scratch the surface, it does not truly reflect sustainability, and it does…
