Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blogpost provides a central hub for all SPICe related to COP26.
Category: EU & International Affairs
COP26: A brief history of climate COP
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis blog provides a timeline history of key outcomes from previous Climate COPs.
COP26 – What’s on the Agenda?
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction COP26 is a global United Nations summit about climate change and how countries are planning to tackle and adapt to it. The United Nations
Guest Blog: Glasgow and COP26 – Code Red in the Dear Green Place
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is guest written by Alison Johnstone MSP, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. It was written for an article for ‘The Geographer’, a quarterly magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
SPICe FAQs – COVID-19: international travel and quarantine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis blog looks at managed isolation for international arrivals into the UK.
The European Commission’s State of the Union speech from a Scottish perspective
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog sets out why an interest in the EU’s policy direction and legislative proposals will continue to be important for the Scottish Parliament and summarises some of the key elements of the State of the Union.
A good deal? Agriculture and the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe media has recently reported extensively on the negotiations to establish a free trade agreement (FTA) between the UK and Australia. Much of this attention has been paid to the impact that the agreement may have on UK agricultural sectors.
Settled Status and Criminal Records
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog looks at some of the issues related to applications for settled status by prisoners and those with a criminal record
What is happening with the new Shared Prosperity Fund?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog looks at the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), the replacement for EU structural funds. The scheme is now being developed, and expected to launch in 2022 (with further details expected in the second half of 2021)
Scottish Social Security and Brexit: many complex moving parts
Reading Time: 5 minutesBrexit has made many things more complicated – this blog summarises a SPICe commissioned project looking at some of the impacts on
devolved social security.