Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at the findings of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and its implications for Scotland.
Category: Environment & Energy
How to count to net-zero: Part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we know if Scotland’s public spending today will deliver Scotland’s climate targets in 2030 and beyond?
A (woolly) mammoth task? The Climate Change Bill before Stage 3
Reading Time: 5 minutes What’s in the Climate Bill? On 25 September 2019, the Scottish Parliament will consider the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) Scotland Bill at Stage 3.
Assessing the conservation status of Scotland’s salmon rivers
Reading Time: 4 minutes The wild Atlantic salmon is an iconic Scottish species, however, their numbers are in decline. The total salmon rod catch in Scottish rivers reached its
Plenty of fish in the sea? Pressures facing Scotland’s wild Atlantic salmon
Reading Time: 4 minutes The iconic wild Atlantic salmon is in decline across Scotland. Their unique lifestyle – spawning in rivers and migrating thousands of miles downstream, across the
How to count to net-zero
Reading Time: 4 minutes Counting to zero is easy. But budgeting for zero carbon, that’s more difficult.
The fight for the future of fish
Reading Time: 4 minutes The fishing industry “is engaged in a battle in parliament”. It wants to prevent the UK Fisheries Bill from including a commitment that all fish
Net-zero and the climate emergency
Reading Time: 5 minutes How did the net-zero report come about? In October 2018 the UK and devolved governments asked their independent expert advisers, the Committee on Climate Change
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Brexit
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is considered the cornerstone of the EU’s efforts to fight climate change and is a key mechanism
The EU Emissions Trading System
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction While the Earth’s climate has been through many cycles of warming and cooling, the current rate of surface temperature rise is unprecedented. The overwhelming