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The statement on progress against our greenhouse gas targets, given by Scottish Government’s climate minister Roseanna Cunningham on 31 October 2017, is the Scottish Parliament’s last chance to discuss climate…
Friends of the Earth Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Bill 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.
Friends of the Earth Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government’s draft Energy Strategy.
Scotland’s councils continue to invest in the companies most responsible for climate change, holding a £1,683 million stake in fossil fuel companies through their pension funds. This report, co-sponsored by…
The draft Climate Change Plan offers many encouraging glimpses of the healthier, fairer, greener Scotland we could be living in in 15 years’ time. However, as the reports of the…
Recommendations The Transport section of the Climate Change Plan is wholly inadequate, being based on predictions of traffic growth that will never materialise and proposing that little more than technological…
Overall recommendations the Plan should say how much carbon reduction each proposal and policy is supposed to deliver over time at least for the earlier years, the Plan should spell…
Recommendations further effort is needed to maximise the community ownership of renewable energy schemes covered by the 'community and locally-owned' target plans to replace fossil fuel heating systems with low…