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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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Young Friends of the Earth Europe get busy in Bonn
I’ve just arrived back from an international meeting in Germany with Young Friends of the Earth Europe (Young FoEE) members from six countries. We were based at a climate camp…
Climate targets rejected, but no excuses for delaying action
Last week I wrote about the challenge laid down by the Scottish Parliament’s Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change committee. This week the row reached the main chamber, with a formal…
Scrap or spin?
It is probably the last thing on your mind after the gloriously warm weekend we have just enjoyed, but today (24 May) is the opening day for applications to the…
Scottish political climate consensus creaking at the seams
Those listening closely may have heard a creaking sound emanating from Holyrood this afternoon. Not the sound of another roof beam falling in, but the sound of the all party…
Con-Dem nation?
Well it’s been quite a few days hasn’t it? As the dust settles on a new Conservative/Liberal Democrat Government, or a ‘ConDem’ nation as some have disparagingly coined it, what…
Spill, baby, spill
While here in the UK we await the results of negotiations to secure a “strong and stable government”, the people of Louisiana, USA, are waking every morning to an even…
Dust yet to settle over hung Parliament
The dust from Thursday’s election looks set to hang around almost as long as the ash from Eyjafjallajökull. Despite the shrill calls from the right-wing press, a Cameron premiership is…
People’s Charter for RBS
Billboards around the country proudly announce the Royal Bank of Scotland’s 14 vague commitments to improve customer services. So, we have launched an alternative People’s Charter for RBS, outlining a…
Royal Bank of Sustainability
I just came back from an inspiring couple of days in Brussels with Friends of the Earth communicators from across Europe.
