Environment Archives | Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/category/environment/ The positive and progressive case for Scotland’s place in the Union Thu, 30 May 2024 09:55:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ourscottishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-87851772_135948534617835_7452483147276484608_o-32x32.png Environment Archives | Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/category/environment/ 32 32 188273756 Reality and Delivery: Achieving Net Zero in Scotland’s Homes https://ourscottishfuture.org/reality-and-delivery-achieving-net-zero-in-scotlands-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reality-and-delivery-achieving-net-zero-in-scotlands-homes Thu, 30 May 2024 09:53:19 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=7430 To mee our ambition to hit net zero by 2045, Scotland needs a plan. The task of decarbonising home heating is especially difficult. Our new paper proposes the creation of UK-Scottish Govt Project Delivery Taskforce to do so.

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]]> 7430 Climate Change Needs Joint Action https://ourscottishfuture.org/climate-change-needs-joint-action/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-change-needs-joint-action Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:10:29 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=7362 To cut to the chase, neither Scotland nor the UK as a whole has much chance of meeting its 2030 or 2045 or 2050 targets on climate change unless we see the UK government and the devolved nations working together on a shared plan. 

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]]> 7362 Brown Backs Plan For “North Sea 2” https://ourscottishfuture.org/brown-backs-plan-for-north-sea-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brown-backs-plan-for-north-sea-2 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:15:00 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=7317 Press Release: OSF report backs new North Sea grid linking offshore wind network to guarantee future for Scottish energy industry.

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]]> 7317 Scotland can lead UK “rewiring” plan https://ourscottishfuture.org/scotland-can-lead-uk-rewiring-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scotland-can-lead-uk-rewiring-plan Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:23:09 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6794 Press Release: Rewiring Britain, How Scotland Can Build The New National Grid

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]]> 6794 Sunak’s Retreat Shows Why We Need A UK Net Zero Task Force https://ourscottishfuture.org/sunaks-retreat-shows-why-we-need-a-uk-net-zero-task-force/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sunaks-retreat-shows-why-we-need-a-uk-net-zero-task-force Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:31:48 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6748 The greatest missing element – in both Mr Sunak’s plan and the incredibly ambitious proposals set out by Mr Yousaf - is a comprehensive plan to deliver Net Zero

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]]> 6748 Our First Millennial PM Is Risking Our Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/our-first-millennial-pm-is-risking-our-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-first-millennial-pm-is-risking-our-future Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:58:26 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6735 Sunak has decided on taking swing after desperate swing at the hitherto strong cross party and cross generational consensus that we should do whatever we can to reach net zero

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]]> 6735 Home Heating task force needed to reach Net Zero https://ourscottishfuture.org/home-heating-task-force-needed-to-reach-net-zero/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=home-heating-task-force-needed-to-reach-net-zero Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:31:34 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6679 Press Release: Only a nationwide task force can help Holyrood reach its Net Zero goal by 2045.

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]]> 6679 The Tricky Politics of Net Zero https://ourscottishfuture.org/the-tricky-politics-of-net-zero/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-tricky-politics-of-net-zero Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:35:42 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6558 Our weekly newsletter. This week: the politics of Net Zero and how Scotland could rejoin the EU.

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]]> 6558 Pump Up The Volume https://ourscottishfuture.org/pump-up-the-volume/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pump-up-the-volume Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:04:37 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=6504 Patrick Harvie's plan to boost heat pump use is right - but the SNP-Green government is failing to deliver because of bad policy implementation, writes Dr Peter Wood.

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]]> 6504 One Too Many https://ourscottishfuture.org/one-too-many/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-too-many Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:18:42 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=5689 It is time that all the devolved Governments worked together to achieve a joined up Deposit Return Scheme.

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