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 …
Climate triple whammy as Scotland misses target
Science sends us yet another climate warning as Scotland misses our targets for action.
Coronavirus used as cover for Estonian fossil fuel expansion
Estonia has signed up to the EU aim of being net-zero emissions by 2050 but building these plants would make that impossible.
Threats to Amazon rainforest intensify
The far right Brazilian Government wants to make it easier to cut down the Amazon rainforest
Deliver a just and green recovery from coronavirus
We shouldnt spend billions just to put our unequal society and unhealthy environment back the way it was before coronavirus.
The renewable energy revolution continues in Scotland
We should power straight through our 100% renewable energy target, investing in storage and sharing it with our neighbours.
Making Polluters Pay
The lessons the legal system needs to learn from the Mossmorran flaring saga
The Fight for Recovery
Government's must use this chance to intervene for the better, rather than letting polluters and financiers write the recovery plan.
Never too early to engage with planning
Scotland’s National Planning Framework will determine much about what developments will happen over the next 10 years
Tough times for Big Oil
The UK and Scottish Governments should set oil and gas production firmly on a trajectory to its end over the next decade, with an accompanying Just Transition strategy.
Meanwhile, around the world the Climate Emergency continues
Whilst the coronavirus has dominated the news, climate change impacts are being felt around the world with rising temperatures, locust storms and wildfires
A Green Recovery or the same old crap?
People are talking about getting back to normality but was 'normal' really so great?