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New assessment of Scottish Government progress on key climate commitments and proposals for securing a greener, fairer, healthier Scotland

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) has published an assessment of the Scottish Government’s progress on delivering key climate...

Feb 11, 2025

11th February 2025

Scottish Wildlife Trust briefing: Starting with the basics – an in-depth look at the potential of Scotland’s farm payments to help tackle the nature and climate crisis

This briefing was written by Ellie Brodie in collaboration with the Scottish Wildlife Trust and was originally published here....

Jan 21, 2025

21st January 2025

Scotland’s Climate Change Plan: failings with the last process and what needs to happen next

Blog by Lloyd Austin, Policy Advisor to Stop Climate Chaos Scotland My last blog sought to explain what the CCP is, why it is important,...

Mar 07, 2024

7th March 2024

Scotland’s new Climate Change Plan: What it is, why it is important and how SCCS will judge its content

Blog by Lloyd Austin, Policy Advisor to Stop Climate Chaos Scotland The Scottish Government has rightly called this time – the 2020s...

Nov 08, 2023

8th November 2023

Press release: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland publishes largest ever Climate Manifesto

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland has published a Climate Manifesto, highlighting over 100 positive actions that governments should take to...

Oct 11, 2023

11th October 2023

A tale of two stories: Scotland’s climate achievements compared with ambitions

By Fabrice Leveque, Climate and Energy Policy Manager at WWF Scotland We know Scotland has high ambitions when it comes to tackling climate...

Jul 08, 2022

8th July 2022

Scotland hits 2015 climate emissions target

Commenting on the news today that the Scottish Government has met its 2015 annual emission target, Jim Densham from Stop Climate Chaos...

Jun 13, 2017

13th June 2017

Seven transformative climate policies launched for 2016 elections

Scotland’s political parties are today being urged to adopt seven transformative climate policy proposals in their 2016 election...

Oct 15, 2015

15th October 2015

Five years on from the Scottish Parliament declaring a climate emergency – what has happened since?

Blog by Becky Kenton-Lake, SCCS Coalition Manager 2019 was the year that thousands of people joined the school strikers to march in towns...

May 24, 2024

24th May 2024

Manifesting climate action

Blog by Mike Robinson, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (a version of this was published in the Scotsman here) Recent weeks have seen...

Oct 09, 2023

9th October 2023

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