Climate Justice Action Guide
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Research & Briefings
Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
Evidence to the ECCLR Committee on Air Quality
The Environment, Climate Change, and Land Reform Committee put out a call for evidence on air quality in the summer of 2017. Read our submission here.
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Low Emission Zone Briefing
All our major cities in Scotland have unsafe and illegal levels of air pollution. Low Emission Zones are designated areas where vehicles are required to meet strict emissions standards or…
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Response to the Climate Change Bill consultation
Friends of the Earth Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Bill consultation.
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Evidence to Justice Committee on Civil Litigation Bill
Evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill. Our evidence, as part of the SE LINK Legal Strategy Subgroup: calls on…
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Briefing: Scottish Councils are Gambling on Fracking
Local Authorities should support steps to stop fracking locally and nationally. As well as ending fracking at home, they should also stop investing in companies fracking elsewhere in the world.
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Response to Defra Air Quality Plan Consultation
Air pollution continues to be responsible for hundreds of early deaths in Scotland each year, in breach of European law. Following a High Court ruling last year, the UK Government…
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MSP briefing – Air pollution in Scotland: Tackling a public health crisis
Friends of the Earth Scotland recommends four actions the Scottish Government could take right now to tackle the crisis: a Low Emission Zone in every city in Scotland, investing 10% of the transport budget into walking and cycling, giving councils more power to improve bus services, and making 20mph the default speed limit in built-up areas.
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FoES response to Scottish Government ‘Talking Fracking’ consultation
To open up a new source of fossil fuels would run counter to the Scottish Government’s efforts to be a world leader on climate action. Therefore, the only reasonable course of action for the Scottish Government is to ban all forms of unconventional oil and gas extraction.
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