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 …
Business trying to delay energy transition away from fossil fuels
The industry has realised they are losing the argument badly and things are about to get serious.
Another nail in the coffin for oil and gas?
The Scottish Government has promised a review of oil & gas but how can it reconcile fossil fuels with the neccesary climate action.
The next 5 years for Scotland’s environment
What did the SNP manifesto promise on climate change and the environment?
Creating a Just Transition away from fossil fuels
The Just Transition Commission’s report must be seen as a strong and urgent agenda for action by the next Scottish Government.
Disaster or hope on climate
There are positive signs of change in climate action around the world, including in the most unexpected places.
Just Transition for people and the climate
Our research shows oil and gas workers must be consulted on the transition away from fossil fuels.
The twilight of the oil industry
Opposition to oil increases, from outside the industry to those workers thinking about going elsewhere.
Mind who you work with – Aberdeen Council forms climate partnership with BP
BP's is still looking for more fossil fuels - why is Aberdeen Council asking it for advice on cutting climate emissions?
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 …
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.
A Green Recovery or the same old crap?
People are talking about getting back to normality but was 'normal' really so great?