Land rights in focus at environmental conference
Scotland’s leading expert on land rights will outline how increased pressure on the world’s resources is impacting on the poor in Scotland and around the world. Speaking at Friends of…
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New Chief Executive for Friends of the Earth Scotland
Friends of the Earth Scotland, Scotland’s leading independent environmental campaigning charity, today announced the appointment of Stan Blackley as the organisation’s new Chief Executive. Mr Blackley comes to Friends of…
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UK Government climate change deal – Friends of the Earth Scotland comment
Commenting on the news of a ‘Historic climate change deal with legal powers agreed by Cabinet’, Juliet Swann, Head of Campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: “That the…
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Tory manifesto heading full steam away from secure green future
Commenting on the Scottish Conservative manifesto released today, Francis Stuart, Friends of the Earth Scotland Parliamentary Officer, said: “The Tory manifesto is largely a sop to big business, designed to…
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Budget fails to fund fair future
The much needed and much delayed Green Investment Bank got an extra £2bn in the Chancellor’s budget, but will be without lending powers until 2015. This effectively renders it a…
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Craft fair and cafe to raise funds for the environment
When: Friday 25 March and Saturday 26 March 2011 11am to 3:30pm, FREE entry Where: Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh Jewellery and craft makers from all over Scotland are…
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Protests outside treasury over RBS oil investments
As bailed-out bank RBS publishes details of its 2010 financial results, campaigners call on the government to cure RBS of its high-risk oil addition. RBS’s results show that it is…
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Carbon budgets ‘gambling with our future’
Climate campaigners today (1 February) criticised the UK Committee on Climate Change’s proposed carbon budgets for being ‘simplistic’ and ‘gambling with our future’. The Committee today acknowledged that Scotland will…
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Carbon fraud shows risks of relying on markets to tackle climate change
Commenting on the decision by the European Commission to halt trading in the EU Emissions Trading System, David Heller, climate justice and energy campaigner with Friends of the Earth Europe,…
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