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This year’s divestment campaign highlights
2025 has been another exciting year for our campaign to end pension fund investments in climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
Standing with workers to demand for a fast and fair transition
This year, affected workers and communities made it clear that they are unwilling to put up with the impacts of unjust transitions.
Breakthrough in fight against new oil and gas
Major progress made in 2025 but the fight against the Rosebank field remains critical
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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…
The end of the age of coal
With the announcement of the closure of Longannet power station we are probably already in the final year of coal power in Scotland, with the plant expected to stop generating…
INEOS – the figures they want you to believe and the numbers they don’t want you to know
Today’s papers make much of INEOS’s claim that fracking could bring £2.5bn of benefit to communities in Scotland. This is despite (a) INEOS having already said this last year (here)…
Time to get Aarhus in order: access to justice in environmental matters in Scotland
This blog was first published in Scottish Justice Matters Volume 3:1 March 2015 Ten years on from the ratification of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access…
UNISON joining the call for Fossil Free Pensions
A new campaign is emerging to get the Lothian Pension Fund, one of Scotland’s largest public funds, to divest from dirty and risky fossil-fuels and invest sustainabably. Last week the…
