SCCS’s response: UK government announcement that it will not grant new licences for oil and gas fields

Scotland’s climate coalition has welcomed the UK government’s decision to rule out new oil and gas fields, saying it’s a “historic...

Nov 27, 2025

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SCCS response to Conservative’s pledge to maximise oil and gas extraction

Mike Robinson, chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, said: “The oil and gas sector has been declining for most of the last 20 years,...

Sep 02, 2025

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Press release: First Minister urged to reject Cambo oil field

First Minister urged to “address the elephant in the room” and strongly reject new Cambo oil field A coalition of over 60 charities,...

Oct 27, 2021

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Where is the ‘local’ in our Green Recovery?

We are now firmly in an age of crisis. The global covid-19 pandemic rumbles on; the financial crisis of 2008, which was never fully over,...

Sep 08, 2020

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SCCS reaction to Scottish Government’s Energy Efficiency Route Map

The First Minister launched the Route Map to an Energy Efficient Scotland today at the All Energy Conference in Glasgow. Energy used to...

May 02, 2018

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Why we should make homes more energy efficient

By Caroline Rance, Climate and Energy Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Scotland & Sarah Beattie-Smith, Climate and Energy Policy...

Feb 01, 2018

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Warm Homes

By Sarah Beattie-Smith, Climate and Energy Policy Officer at WWF Scotland In the week that The Queen opened the Queensferry Crossing,...

Sep 08, 2017

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Scotland at a crossroads on climate action

World leading targets at risk without increased ambition On the third anniversary of the Scottish Climate Change Act today Stop Climate...

Jun 25, 2012

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