21 Feb 2019
By William Hardie, RSE Policy Advice Manager Last November, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) published an advice paper examining the implications of Brexit for Scotland’s environment. It noted that withdrawal from the EU poses significant challenges to the maintenance and improvement of the quality of Scotland’s environment unless current EU arrangements are adopted in UK […]
19 Feb 2019
On 16 February, the Scottish Government issued a consultation on environmental principles and governance in Scotland. It is easy to miss the importance of this – after all what do principles and governance mean in practice? Quite a bit as it turns out! From fracking to GMOs and from the introduction of a deposit return […]
16 Feb 2019
Scottish Environment LINK, a coalition of 35 Scottish environmental charities, has welcomed the much-awaited Scottish Government consultation on environmental principles and governance in Scotland. At a time of great ecological crisis, the charities believe that the prospect of Brexit threatens to unravel critical environmental protections, and are urging members of the public to respond to […]
11 Feb 2019
From schoolchildren to businesses and anyone in-between, politicians are being told loud and clear that we need to urgently tackle climate change. Our natural world is already in decline with global warming being considered as the greatest cause of species extinctions this century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said that a 1.5°C […]
07 Feb 2019
By Phoebe Cochrane The need to focus on overall consumption reduction, improve our metrics, be mindful of the importance of biodiversity, and introduce a circular economy bill to drive radical and systemic change, were some of the findings of a recent seminar. An OECD report published last year finds that the world’s consumption of raw […]
01 Jan 2019
The need to focus on overall consumption reduction, improve our metrics, be mindful of the importance of biodiversity, and introduce a circular economy bill to drive radical and systemic change, were some of the findings of a recent seminar. An OECD report published last year finds that the world’s consumption of raw materials is set […]
14 Dec 2018
On Monday 10 December, celebrated across the globe as the International Human Rights Day, the First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership published its recommendations on “how Scotland can continue to lead by example in the field of human rights”. Entitled “Recommendations for a new human rights framework to improve people’s lives”, the report […]
13 Dec 2018
From the air we breathe to the food we eat, Scotland needs seas full of life. Yet they are struggling. With the tide of ocean plastics awareness, resistance to mechanically stripping pristine kelp forests, community monitoring of scallop dredge damage in Loch Carron, Firth of Lorn and Loch Gairloch and a growing consensus for overhauling […]
06 Dec 2018
Blog by Alistair Whyte Scotland is a fantastic place for nature, and plants are a huge part of what’s special about it. From the arctic-alpine wildflowers of our highest summits, to the vibrant, flower-studded machair of the Hebrides, or the Atlantic rainforests of the west coast dripping with lichens, the diversity of our plant […]
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