Reading Time: 9 minutesThis blog explores the key drivers of energy price rises, expert commentary, and some of the responses from Scottish and UK governments.
Category: Environment & Energy
Scottish Government’s 10 year strategy for economic transformation
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis 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 minutesThis 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 minutesIntroduction 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 minutesIntroduction 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 minutesThis 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 minutesThis blog explores the policies for aquaculture in the Fourth National Planning Framework
Retrofitting homes for net-zero
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is post about the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee’s evidence on retrofitting homes for net-zero.
COP26: A fragile win – but for whom? Coal, fossil fuels; loss and damage
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog attempts to set out what the key agreements (and disagreements) have been and to summarise the battle of narratives on the outcome of the negotiations and the Glasgow Climate Pact.
Emerging from COP26 – the ‘fight of our lives’
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post summarises the outcomes from COP26.