Reading Time: 5 minutes The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently published the third and final part of its review of global climate research. Known as Assessment
Category: Environment & Energy
Energy price crisis – impacts and remedies in Scotland
Reading Time: 9 minutes This blog explores the key drivers of energy price rises, expert commentary, and some of the responses from Scottish and UK governments.
Renewable energy map of Scotland
Reading Time: < 1 minute This blog allows you to explore where renewable energy projects are in Scotland. An interactive map allows you to narrow the data down by Parliamentary
Scottish Government’s 10 year strategy for economic transformation
Reading Time: 8 minutes This blog gives an overview of the Scottish Government’s 10 year strategy for economic transformation
Land, space and place: NPF4 and land use
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog looks at the relationship between Scotland’s Fourth National Planning Framework and other strategic land uses.
NPF4: Energy for electricity and heat
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction SPICe is producing a series of blogs on the Draft Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), which provides a statutory strategy and framework for land use
NPF4: Mainstreaming Climate Change?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Published during COP26, the Draft Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) provides a statutory strategy and framework for land use out to Scotland’s net zero
NPF4 and the nature emergency
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog discusses policies in the new draft Fourth National Planning Framework for biodiversity and nature recovery.
Aquaculture and the Fourth National Planning Framework
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog explores the policies for aquaculture in the Fourth National Planning Framework
Retrofitting homes for net-zero
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is post about the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee’s evidence on retrofitting homes for net-zero.