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Richard Dixon

environmental campaigner and consultant

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April 6, 2023

UK climate plan still falls short

Revised UK climate plans continue to fall short of delivering on internationally-agreed targets while new energy plans continue to back expanding oil and gas production. Last week the UK Government released 44 climate and energy documents, including a revised version …

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March 30, 2023

UN’s strongest climate warning yet

Last weeks’ UN climate report came with the direst warnings yet, but is anyone listening ? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment’s Synthesis Report is the culmination of years of work by the world’s climate scientists.  It brings together …

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March 23, 2023

Climate challenge for new SNP leader

The new SNP Leader will have big shoes to fill when it comes to making progress on climate change. Alex Salmond was a great promoter of renewables and made the commitment to a climate bill with a guaranteed reduction in …

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March 16, 2023

Nuclear still not the answer

The nuclear industry and their friends are stepping up their propaganda war but their terrible track record shows that new reactors are still not the answer to reducing emissions or supplying affordable power. The UK Committee on Climate Change, official …

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March 9, 2023

Ocean rescue

There was much coverage over the weekend about the creation of an historic UN agreement to protect the world’s international oceans.  There is also much to do to protect Scotland’s seas. The world’s nations agreed in 2012 at the Rio+20 meeting …

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March 2, 2023

Climate culture

Serious action on climate change means big changes in work, homes, travel, leisure and diet.  If we are to survive the changing climate and the changes we will need to make in our lives, creativity, art and storytelling are an essential …

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February 23, 2023

Climate in court.  Again

Legal action on climate change is stepping up a gear, with those in charge of oil companies now in the firing line. Three years ago, in one of my more feisty columns, I said top oil industry people should be …

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February 16, 2023

Deposit Return Scheme whingers should shut up

Despite more than 5 years of notice, businesses are still whingeing on about the new Deposit Return Scheme, due to start operating in mid-August. The Deposit Return Scheme or DRS will put a 20p deposit on plastic, glass and metal …

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February 9, 2023

Climate and collective insanity

If aliens are watching our antics on climate change from afar they can surely only conclude that our species is collectively insane… Report to the Galactic Accession Committee, from the Chief Anthropologist Background – we have been observing the planet …

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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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