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Why cold homes are a climate justice issue

The transition away from fossil fuels is a chance to transform our energy system to work for the public and improves our lives.

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Rochana Sheward departs as Director

Rochana will be stepping down from the Director role, with their final day being 13 March.

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Why I’ve been knitting to stop a power station

Taking action, one stitch at a time

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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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Should we break-up RBS?

Ray Perman authored Friends of the Earth Scotand’s 2014 paper “Smaller Greener Banking: Banking for sustainability in a New Scotland”.  He is Chairman of the James Hutton Institute and former…

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Global Divestment Day in Scotland

On 13-14 February 2015 groups around the world will be calling for our money to be taken out of fossil fuels and dirty energy.  This will be the first ever…

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Broad Alliance letter to MPs on Infrastructure Bill

An alliance of nearly 30 community groups sent every Scottish MP a letter urging them to vote for a moratorium on unconventional gas via an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill on…

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Crunch time for the SNP on fracking

The Scottish Government has been markedly less enthusiastic about the development of unconventional gas and fracking than its UK counterpart. However, circumstances are conspiring to ensure that in the next…

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Lima: seeds of resistance

You probably noticed a range of different perspectives on the outcome of the Lima climate talks in the media in the last week or so. From Lima as a failure…

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