Parliamentary Briefing – Raising Scotland’s Climate Ambition (Oct 2017)
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Research & Briefings
Read our briefings and analysis on key environmental issues
Warm welcome for floating wind farm
Dr Richard Dixon warmly welcomes the First Minister’s opening of the world’s first floating wind farm.
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Scottish Government urged to act on climate emergency
Activists inflated a huge warming earth globe outside Scottish Government headquarters at St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh today to highlight the emergency of climate change and urge greater action from the Scottish Government.
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Over 17,000 call for Scotland to lead on climate change
Over 17,000 people across Scotland have responded to a Scottish Government consultation urging them to raise their ambition in tackling climate change.
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Programme for Government 2017 Reaction
Friends of the Earth Scotland react to 2017/18 Programme for Government. New policies to tackle polluting transport, transition away from high-carbon industry and creation of a National Investment Bank mean it is the greenest ever announced in Scotland.
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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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Coalition launches campaign to keep Scotland as a world leader in tackling climate change
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Trump to dump Paris climate agreement
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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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