Carbon Costs: Corporate Carbon Accounting and Reporting
Climate change is the single biggest environmental challenge we face. Whilst the changes and costs become ever clearer, we are only just starting to get to grips with what needs…
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Research & Briefings
Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
The Oil & Gas Bank: RBS & the financing of climate change
The Royal Bank of Scotland is the primary UK bank financing new extraction of the fossil fuels whose use is accelerating the planet’s atmosphere towards its climatic tipping point. Despite…
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The Power of Scotland: Cutting Carbon with Scotland’s Renewable Energy
Reducing carbon emissions from electricity generation is a key part of the Scottish Executive’s climate change programme, with an ambitious target set for 40% of electricity consumption in Scotland to…
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Environmental justice in Scotland – just words? A view from the outside
This report by Prof. Werner Maschewsky, of Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, defines and extrapolates the concept of EJ, referring to the USA, before applying it to the Scottish understanding…
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Love Thy Neighbour? The Potential for Good Neighbour Agreements in Scotland
This report first outlines the nature and potential of GNAs (Chapter 1), and then turns to lessons from experience with GNAs in Scotland and elsewhere – particularly the US (Chapter…
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Report on the Introduction of a Third Party Right of Appeal in Scotland
Friends of the Earth Scotland has long campaigned for a third party right of appeal (TPRA) in planning within a widescale review of the planning system. We have worked with…
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Carbon Dinosaurs
This report highlights the role of coal-fired power stations in UK climate and energy policy. Friends of the Earth is calling for the emissions of carbon dioxide from coal fired…
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Access All Areas – Report on the campaign for Freedom of Information
The aims of the Access All Areas campaign were to test the current systems of information provision which are operated by public bodies, to highlight issues of concern and to…
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Counting Chemicals: Developing a Pollution Release and Transfer Register for Scotland
Freedom of information and access to environmental information have, in recent years, come to the forefront of international political and environmental debate. It is under this umbrella that Pollution Release…
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