Blog Post
05 Oct 2020
Official figures released last week show a 72 percent rise in the amount of waste burned between 2018 and 2019. Is this a wise trajectory, compatible with net zero ambitions, asks Dr Phoebe Cochrane, LINK's sustainable economics officer.
Blog Post
05 Oct 2020
The global pandemic has proven that people are far more vulnerable than many of us thought. However, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the power, resilience and potential of grassroots and community-led action. There have been many inspiring examples of how community and voluntary organisations have stepped up to meet the huge challenges […]
Blog Post
29 Sep 2020
With the 2020 Paris Fashion Week currently underway, there are few global industries where the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic are more starkly apparent. National lockdowns around the world have highlighted the fragility of linear economy supply chains, and there has been a much-discussed re-evaluation of what counts as vital, necessary or luxury.
Press Release
04 Sep 2020
A statement from Scottish Environment LINK’s Deer Group on control of deer populations: “As environmental land managers we fully recognise the need for ongoing control of deer populations, and to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Natural predators of deer are extinct in Scotland. Deer numbers are far higher than is sustainable for nature to […]
Blog Post
03 Sep 2020
James Curran takes inspiration for Scotland's green recovery and the building of a circular economy from an unlikely-sounding item: zero-carbon carpet tiles.
Press Release
01 Sep 2020
Scottish Environment LINK, a coalition of Scotland’s leading environmental charities today welcomed Scottish government’s announcement to create new, green jobs to tackle the multiple crises the country is facing relating to climate change, rapid nature decline and the coronavirus. This comes after strong sector-wide and public support for actions to drive a green recovery from […]
Blog Post
01 Sep 2020
Yesterday [31 August], the Scottish government published the ‘Edinburgh Declaration’. This declaration seeks agreement between subnational, regional and local governments across the world, calling on the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to elevate ambition in order to halt biodiversity loss. It urges that greater prominence be given to the role subnational authorities play […]
Blog Post
27 Aug 2020
A recent article in the Scottish press implied that planting trees may not tackle climate change. But the research paper on which the article is based is clear: the issue isn’t with tree planting overall, but with planting on carbon-rich soil. The press article failed to highlight that if the right trees are planted in the right place, they are effective against climate change.
Blog Post
20 Aug 2020
In my earlier blog, I didn’t see the ambitious green wellbeing recovery vision in the Economic Recovery Group’s report that I and many others hoped for. The question now is, is it in the Scottish Government’s response, published on 5 August?
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