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Richard Dixon

environmental campaigner and consultant

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February 2, 2023

Oil boss is COP boss

Pressure is growing on the United Arab Emirates to replace their choice of the head of the state  oil company as the President of the next climate talks, COP28. Countries almost always give the job to their climate or environment minister, …

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January 26, 2023

Air pollution progress – good but not enough

Friends of the Earth Scotland’s annual round up of air pollution found that, in 2022, all the main monitoring sites in Scotland met legal standards set to protect health.  This has only happened once before, when the pandemic lockdown drastically reduced …

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January 19, 2023

What the Energy Strategy really said about fossil fuels

In response to last week’s Scottish Government Energy Strategy one newspaper ran a front page headline announcing the end of the oil and gas industry.  The truth is less clear. The long-awaited new Strategy is a draft and public responses are …

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January 13, 2023

Home insulation war effort needed

Last week an influential committee of MPs called for a national ‘war effort’ to insulate people’s homes.  Although the Scottish Government has been consistently better on this that the UK Government, much more needs to be done. The Environmental Audit Committee …

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January 6, 2023

The Braer disaster 30 years on

30 years ago today Scotland’s worst ever pollution event began.  But it could have been so much worse. Just after 11am on 5th January 1993 the oil tanker MV Braer lost her battle with a massive storm and hit the rocks of …

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December 30, 2022

The environment in 2022

In the midst of war and a cost of living crisis, some good things were achieved for the environment but we also went backwards in 2022. The climate scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced a report on …

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December 22, 2022

Global nature protection takes a big step forward

After working through the night and dramatic last minute hitches the UN talks on biodiversity have a new deal for nature, with the aim of halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. Early on Monday morning the gavel came down …

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December 15, 2022

Targeting waste

The public are demanding more action on waste, including targets for our consumption of key materials in the forthcoming Circular Economy Bill. The Bill was first promised in 2019 but put on hold because of the pandemic.  It is now firmly …

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December 8, 2022

Nuclear at Ineos – a gift to campaigners

The talks between Ineos and Rolls Royce about siting a nuclear reactor at the Grangemouth refinery are a huge early Christmas gift to campaigners opposed to a new generation of nuclear.  The idea contains the perfect combination of elements needed to …

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December 1, 2022

Vaping and the environment

If you walk down any urban street in Scotland it will probably not be long before you see a brightly-coloured, discarded single-use vaping tube lying in a gutter.  A group of charities is calling for them to be banned, but what …

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November 24, 2022

Nature-based solutions not as nice as they sound

As the seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh gets back to catering for tourists, it’s time to reflect that the outcomes of the UN COP27 climate talks were predictable, surprising and dangerous, all at the same time. The first success was …

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November 17, 2022

Climate COP or fossil capture ?

As COP27 grinds slowly towards its conclusion, the battle over what any final agreement might say about fossil fuels is reaching its peak. Last year’s COP in Glasgow produced an agreement that finally actually admitted fossil fuels might be a …

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