Incinerator FAQs and Cheatsheet
This guide is designed to answer your questions about incinerators, pollution, your health, your rights, and the law to do with incineration in Scotland. It starts at the beginning and…
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Research & Briefings
Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
Giving Power to the People: changing the way energy is used in Scotland’s buildings
Friends of the Earth Scotland is campaigning for more action to tackle climate change, through reducing energy use in Scotland’s buildings and increasing small-scale, renewable energy production. Giving Power to…
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Planning reform – a summary
Friends of the Earth Scotland wants Scotland to have an efficient, fair and just planning system that enables high quality, sustainable development in line with the needs of Scotland’s people….
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Planning System Reform in Scotland: Third Party Right of Appeal
This campaign document outlines the need for Third Party Right of Appeal in Scotland by targeting specific campaigns that would benefit from TPRA, and calls for public support. Planning System…
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Briefing on the Introduction of a Third Party Right of Appeal in Scotland
Friends of the Earth Scotland welcomes the Scottish Executive’s consultation on widening rights of appeal in planning. We support the introduction of a third party right of appeal (TPRA), limited…
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Say Yes to Less campaign briefing
Edinburgh Council is developing proposals to transform the city’s transport system, including the introduction of congestion charging. This campaign briefing explains why something needs to change. Say Yes to Less…
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Redressing the Balance 5: Citizens Science – What Activists Need to Know
This handbook introduces activists to statistics and science, with case studies to underline the importance of having a basic grasp of the figures. It is the fifth installment in a…
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Executive debate on Transport campaign briefing
This joint briefing from Friends of the Earth Scotland & TRANSform Scotland indicates key arguments and points of information about the changes needed to our transport infrastructure. Executive debate on…
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Credit Where It’s Due – the ecological debt education project
This is the follow-up to the Redressing the Balance: Working towards environmental justice in Scotland series. This handbook is designed as an introduction to the subject of ecological debt for…
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