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Baillie Gifford ‘hypocrisy’ on £400m fossil fuel investments
An investment firm with £400m in fossil fuels is under attack for "hypocrisy" after it urged the Scottish Government to cut carbon pollution.
Government officials worried that tree deal with Shell was “greenwashing”
Senior Scottish Government forestry officials feared that a £5 million tree-planting deal with oil giant, Shell, could be viewed as “greenwashing”, according to internal emails.
Scottish and UK governments have no records on commercial peat digging
Freedom of information requests to the UK and Scottish governments reveal that authorities have no idea how much peat is being removed and sold commercially.
Warning that wildlife in danger from ‘staggering’ 40% funding cuts
Scottish Government funding for major environment bodies has been slashed by 40 per cent over the last decade putting nature and the climate at risk, according to a new expert analysis.
MSP pension fund aims to be more ethical – but ups fossil fuel investment
Holyrood's £86 million pension fund has ploughed more money into fossil fuels and opposed bids to combat sexual harassment and hate speech after agreeing to make investments more ethical.
The North Sea oil industry’s £6.8 billion plan to breach climate targets
Ten oil companies are planning to invest £6.8 billion in six major new projects in the North Sea in breach of international targets to cut climate pollution.
Scotland’s top civil servant took 58 flights while telling staff not to fly
The Scottish Government’s civil service chief, Leslie Evans, has flown to and from London four times more often than going by train while telling her 6,000 officials to “avoid domestic air travel".
Climate ‘under threat’ from new fossil fuel facilities in Scotland
New fossil fuel developments planned across Scotland will lock the country into polluting the climate for decades and help “fry the planet”, campaigners are warning.
The Scottish Government’s first big climate conversation takes flak
The launch of the Scottish Government's public consultation on how to combat the global climate emergency has been condemned as “fiddling while the world burns”.