Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
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…
Joint evidence with Just Transition Partnership on the Climate Change Plan to: Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee Local Government and Communities…
Response to the UK Committee on Climate Change's consultation on the level and format of future climate targets for Scotland. Uses a Fair Shares approach to argue for a new…
Summary – the Climate Change Plan is the product of a very large amount of work and contains many welcome measures, as well as painting an attractive vision of a…
It’s time for a Just Transition in Scotland, moving to a modern low-carbon economy in ways which protect workers’ livelihoods, create a new industrial base and deliver a fairer Scotland….
The urgent need to stop greenhouse gas emissions, the opportunities of new and green jobs, declining employment in oil and gas and the desire to promote social justice require a…
Read the report from our conference 'How to get a Just Transition to a Low Carbon Economy in Scotland' held in Glasgow in December 2016.