The Scottish Government has increased its previous pledge of one LEZ to zones in our four biggest cities by 2020. These zones are major piece in the puzzle of tackling Scotland’s toxic air pollution.
Scotland’s new Programme for Government contains a number of very significant steps forward on climate change and the environment.
The UK Government’s plan to phase out fossil fuel vehicles in 23 years time is not good enough for the many people whose lives are impacted on a daily basis by toxic air now.
MSPs will today approve the Air Departure Tax (Scotland) Bill, giving the Scottish ministers the power to set air travel tax for the first time. But who will be the winners and losers be from these changes?
There are 38 designated Pollution Zones across Scotland where levels of toxic air are deemed unsafe. We need Low Emission Zones now.
Scottish Government’s draft climate change plan is supposed to show how each sector of the economy is going to help cut overall emissions by 66% by 2030. Traffic predictions suggest transport isn’t planning on doing its fair share.
Transport is the largest sector of climate emissions for Scotland. Unfortunately, the Government department responsible don’t seem to have any innovative thinking on how to head off demand or encourage walking, cycling or public transport.
For many of us, 2016 seemed like a particularly tough year. It brought some major environmental setbacks, culminating in the election of a new US president with an extremely regressive environmental agenda. However, this year was not all doom and gloom for the environment…