This week saw the publication of a major report which lays out how we might save the world from runaway climate change. It urges very rapid emissions reductions, with global emissions having to peak by 2025, but relies heavily on techno-fixes …
30 years of progress, but still not enough
Today is my last day at Friends of the Earth Scotland, after 30 years in the Scottish environment movement. There has been good progress in those three decades and the environment and climate change have moved from fringe concerns to mainstream …
Warnings from a warming planet
So far this year Scotland has experienced its sixth warmest January, 2 whole degrees Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average and its tenth wettest February, which was also 1.1ºC warmer than that longer term average. As I write southwestern Europe …
Power in the EU
There is no doubt that being part of the UK has been a problem for Scotland’s ambitions on climate change and energy. From artificially high costs to deliver green electricity into the grid to the UK Government cutting support for wind …
Reflections on ice
New research has shown the rate and impact of melting glaciers and icesheets. We look at how this will affect people and the planet.
Can legal action stop climate change?
Can the courts bring decisive action to end our extraction of fossil fuels? Three activists take the UK Government to court for its support of the industry.
Nuclear power – 35 years on from Chernobyl
Since Chernobyl only three reactor projects have begun in Europe, all being built by the French state-owned company EDF.
The Climate Emergency Election
This election must be about creating a green, wellbeing economy and generating the green jobs we need to transition away from fossil fuels.
Forward and back on climate
Good climate commitments are being undermined by UK and Scottish Government faith in far-off technical fixes.
When you’re in a hole, it’s time to stop digging
Coined in the 1950s the psychology term cognitive dissonance has become popularly understood to mean a situation where a person holds two completely contradictory beliefs without seeming to comprehend the problem with this. Cognitive dissonance is very much in evidence …
Out of time on oil
A new report on the gap between the climate change goals and oil and gas ambitions shows that the current double-think can't go on.
Circular Economy targets needed
Scotland has a very good reputation for our circular economy thinking but now is the time to make the idea a reality.