Press Releases

An alternative People’s Charter for the Royal Bank of Scotland is launched today, outlining a green future for the 83% publicly owned bank. The People’s Charter calls on RBS to…

An online sound library has raised over £5,000 for Friends of the Earth Scotland in a few days. Edinburgh based entrepreneur Ben Gillett’s company Camel Audio is offering customers a…

Camel Audio is pleased to announce Planet Earth, a new Sound Library packed full of great sounds for electronica, ambient and dance music producers. Until the end of August you…

This is a response to an article in The Times by Stephen Hester this week. The Times did not publish the letter. Times’s online version is subscriber only, unfortunately. Stephen…

Commenting on the Committee on Climate Change’s report released today (30 June), Francis Stuart, Friends of the Earth Scotland Parliamentary Officer, said: “This report supports what FoES has been saying…

Scotland’s leading environmental campaigning charity is encouraging people from across Scotland to join a Fife Coastal Challenge bike ride in September. Friends of the Earth Scotland is encouraging people to…

Research released by the European Commission today (26 May) recognises that the costs of raising the EU’s 2020 CO2 reduction target to 30% would be minimal, while significantly cutting the…

Commenting on the Scottish Government’s Annual Environmental Report 2008/09, Duncan McLaren, Friends of the Earth Scotland Chief Executive, said: “This report makes disappointing reading. Although the period covered predates the…

Commenting on yesterday’s (18 May) vote on targets in the Scottish Parliament’s Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee (TICC), Duncan McLaren, Friends of the Earth Scotland Chief Executive, said: “Ambitious…