The Scottish Government is consulting on its Draft Public Engagement Strategy for transition to net zero, and how to move from encouraging incremental changes in attitudes and behaviours, to facilitating a society-wide transformation. Closes 31st March 2021.
The world is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the rapid depletion of the natural world and needs to find new measures of success to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a landmark review has concluded.
An opportunity to put your climate-friendly projects on the map and sign up for more info.
News about our planned Climate Festival to raise awareness and highlight the importance of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP26).
The UK government’s decision to allow a new coal mine in west Cumbria is criticised by campaigners, scientists and the UK’s own Committee on Climate Change, for increasing emissions and undermining the UK’s credibility in COP26 climate negotiations. Sign Greenpeace’s petition.
With only nine years left to meet Scotland’s 2030 target to reduce emissions by 75% we need an ambitious and effective Climate Change plan to cut emissions across all areas of life in Scotland and ensure climate justice. Sign Stop Climate Chaos Scotland’s letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform.
It is estimated that one kilogramme of nitrous oxide warms the atmosphere about 300 times the amount than one kilogramme of carbon dioxide does over a 100-year timescale, so anything that reduces nitrous oxide emissions is worth considering seriously. Scientists from...
Visit Scotland has committed to developing a climate action plan aligned with Scottish Government targets, and will support tourism businesses to do the same.
The pledge will be a key discussion theme at a biodiversity summit later this year, but there is scepticism about whether countries will actually deliver on it, given the world’s failure to meet a single one of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010.
Arctic Peoples speak of the challenges of ice melting beneath their feet and coastal villages being swept away.