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Plans for Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Scots Law Welcomed

Experts publish detailed proposals for a new human rights law and recommend that the new law is brought forward by the new Parliament.

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Scottish Parliament

MSP reports must mean ‘reality check’ in Government Climate Plan

Committees heard expert evidence that plans lacked policy detail, lacked transparency in key calculations and were over-reliant on speculative technologies.

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Updated Paris Pledges Leave World on Track for Climate Catastrophe

Commenting on a report published today by the UN analysing countries updated pledges to tackle the climate crisis under the Paris Agreement, Friends of the Earth Scotland Head of Campaigns…

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Traffic stats show transport challenge

Responding to the Scottish Transport Statistics published, Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Air Pollution Campaigner Gavin Thomson said: “The new statistics show that in the year running up to the…

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Revealed: Scottish Council Pensions invest £1.2billion in fossil fuel polluters

Campaigners are calling for Scottish Council Pension Funds to end their huge investments in climate-wrecking fossil fuel companies.

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Budget: Energy efficiency cash boost is welcome step

The Scottish Government has announced an extra £45million of spending on energy efficiency, fuel poverty reduction and heat decarbonisation. The sum was part of the UK Treasury announcement of a…

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Budget Boost For Warm Homes Could Deliver “Triple Win”

Scottish Budget can deliver a boost to public health, green jobs and climate emissions cuts by investing extra £100million in energy efficiency and fuel poverty.

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Minister to be challenged on whether Climate Change Plan “adds up”

Experts and campaigners have questioned the modelling used by Government officials and challenged the over-reliance on illusory Negative Emission Technologies

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Oil pollution in Goi, Nigeria

Nigerian farmers & Friends of the Earth Netherlands win Shell oil pollution case

Shell must compensate farmers for damage caused by pipeline leaks, parent company also found to have violated its duty of care.

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