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With only six weeks to go before world leaders meet at key United Nations talks in Paris, negotiators are gathered in Bonn this week in an effort to move closer…

Pope Francis today published his papal encyclical on the environment which called for greater political and personal action to tackle climate change. In a strongly worded paper he says there…

As two weeks of UN climate talks concluded in Germany today, Friends of the Earth Scotland warned that not enough progress was being made towards a fair climate treaty, due…

Scotland’s world leading climate legislation is being let down by reports that fail to show a clear picture of public sector action, new research shows in a report published on…

Scottish Carbon Footprint Increases Figures released today show that Scotland’s carbon footprint is increasing. This includes emissions embedded in goods and services we buy and use and those directly produced…

The European Union today became the first major power to show its cards and announce the level of climate action it proposes to pledge at UN climate talks in Paris…

The European Commission released details of its vision for Europe’s energy future, and its proposed preparations for the United Nations climate summit in Paris later this December. ON THE ENERGY…

Newly released figures from the Met Office show that 2014 was the warmest year ever recorded in Scotland. TOP LINES FOR SCOTLAND FOR 2014: 2014 was the warmest year ever…

Commenting on the much-delayed outcome of the UN climate negotiations in Lima Friends of the Earth Scotland Head of Campaigns, Mary Church, said: “What we’ve seen in Lima is a…