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No new coal-fired power stations will be built in Scotland unless they demonstrate carbon capture and storage at a commercial scale – on at least 300MW of capacity. Duncan McLaren…
Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second ‘sub-prime’ style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe, a…
Carbon accounting is no longer an optional extra. Carbon is increasingly central in public finance decisions, alongside cost and quality. Public sector spending was 41% of Scotland’s GDP last year…
In a forest of targets, we must be sure to see the wood and the trees. The Scottish Government keep setting targets for different sectors that in fact are far…
Meeting the best European recycling rates could recover £47m worth of paper, plastic, metals and other valuable materials every year. New research shows that recycling that £47m worth of waste…
Energy saving and other environmental measures in Scotland could create lotsmore than the 10,000 new jobs mentioned in a study released today by ACE,the Association for the Conservation of Energy….
Raising green taxes to plug the growing deficit in public finances – instead of conventional taxes – would create several hundred thousand additional jobs in the UK, according to a…
UK Government could be bankrolling a climate crunch after saving RBS from the credit crunch with taxpayers’ money, reveals a new report [1]. Government should instead aim to turn RBS…
Scottish campaigners greeted with delight the news that Danish energy giant Dong Energy had dropped plans to develop new coal fired power stations at Hunterston in Ayrshire, and also in…
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