Climate Change

This election must be about creating a green, wellbeing economy and generating the green jobs we need to transition away from fossil fuels.

Good climate commitments are being undermined by UK and Scottish Government faith in far-off technical fixes.

As global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year, we look at how moving to a circular economy is key in the climate fight.

A new report on the gap between the climate change goals and oil and gas ambitions shows that the current double-think can't go on.

Scotland has a very good reputation for our circular economy thinking but now is the time to make the idea a reality.

Is there really much to celebrate as Shell reach 50 years of working in the North Sea?

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.

Many people would rather forget 2016 and its catalogue of mistakes, disasters and deaths. The election of Trump poses a real threat to environmental progress and climate action. Richard looks ahead to a busy 2017 for climate campaigning and getting Scotland on the path to a fossil free future.

For a while this meeting looked like it might be that rarest of things, a UN climate conference that actually finished on time rather than running into Saturday or even Sunday. But, true to UN form, talks broke down last night.