Read the latest thinking and news from the Friends of the Earth Scotland team.
Scotland’s Just Transition and the ‘Gilets Jaunes’
10th December 2018, by admin
In the light of 'Gilet Jaunes' protests, it is clear that radical change, organising, democratic ownership, and government intervention are essential parts of the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Why we’re chanting ‘Fossil Banks No Thanks!’
8th December 2018, by Ric Lander
10 years on from the financial crisis and big banks are still casting a long shadow over our society.
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22nd November 2018, by admin
The report from leading NGOs explores why there is a lack of strategic court action in Scotland and suggests recommendations to address this.
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The Lothian and Strathclyde Pension Funds, run by Edinburgh and Glasgow Councils, were found to be failing to take adequate action to protect their £27.1 billion investments from climate risks.
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To inform targets for Scotland’s new Climate Change Bill, we commissioned this report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research on Scotland’s fair share of global emissions to deliver the Paris Agreement.
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This report reveals the extent of UK council investments in the fracking industry
More On This8th May 2018, by Mary Church
Our public interest intervention in INEOS and Reach Coal Seam Gas’ judicial review of the Scottish Government’s decision to ban fracking as submitted to the Court of Session. Our intervention argues that not only is the ban on fracking lawful, but that the Scottish Government is arguably required to ban fracking in order to meet...
More On This10th April 2018, by Caroline Rance
A dozen of the world’s leading climate scientists have published an open letter urging the Scottish Government to set a new target of net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest in the upcoming Climate Change Bill. “As scientists and researchers working on climate change and how to address it, we are all too familiar...
More On This26th March 2018, by Caroline Rance
Fifty organisations, academics and individual farmers including the National Farmers’ Union of Scotland, Scottish Land and Estates, Scottish Crofting Federation and Friends of the Earth Scotland are calling on the Scottish Government to do more to help agriculture substantially reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture and land use is responsible for nearly a quarter of...
More On This25th March 2018, by Emilia Hanna
Scottish Environment LINK has resigned from the Cleaner Air for Scotland’s Governance Group, citing their frustration and disappointment around delays in tackling air pollution, and poor input into Glasgow’s draft Low Emission Zone plans as key reasons. Friends of the Earth Scotland’s Air Pollution Campaigner Emilia Hanna, and Professor James Curran MBE, Honorary LINK fellow,...
More On This9th November 2017, by Ric Lander
This report shows that UK council pension funds invest over £16 billion in fossil fuel – the industry most responsible for climate change. Scottish councils were found to have £1.8 billion invested in fossil fuels: 4.2% of the scheme. The data also show that between 2015-2017 Scottish council investment in fossil fuels increased by £146...
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