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Antje Brown

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Lecturer on education at St Andrews University with research interests in the politics and policy of biodiversity, environmental impact assessment, environmental liability and, more recently, nuclear energy and ‘fracking’.

Devolution and climate crisis

August 17, 2019 by Antje Brown Leave a Comment

2019 is an important year for Scotland’s climate change policy. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, one of the most ambitious and innovative legal acts encompassing a range of far-reaching targets.It will also see the introduction of an even tighter successor to that Act.  Introduced as a Climate Change Bill in … [Read more...] about Devolution and climate crisis

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