When Storm Amy battered the Scottish Highlands in early October, it tore through a salmon farm’s sea pens, releasing around 75,000 fish into open water in Loch Linnhe. The scale of the escape is alarming. It comes at a time when wild Atlantic salmon – already classified as “endangered” in Great Britain – are in decline. For an animal so central to the UK’s ecology, culture and … [Read more...] about Storm Amy and 75K escaped Scottish salmon
Climate emergency
Paying the price for net zero
European countries are reneging on their climate commitments and scaling back investment in the new green industrial deal. After January 20, when the second Trumpian dystopia begins, the White House will systematically shred the plans - and undermine the achievements - of Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act that promised investment of up to $3trn in clean energy and … [Read more...] about Paying the price for net zero
EU climate challenges – and politics
How will the EU tackle the climate and biodiversity crises in the coming crucial years? Europe is the fastest-warming continent, globally, and its nature and biodiversity is in a state of serious decline. Yet, leading climate experts are warning the EU is likely to miss its own 55% target for emissions reductions by 2030 unless it rapidly steps up – possibly not even hitting … [Read more...] about EU climate challenges – and politics
What about climate policies in this political crisis?
Will Humza Yousaf still be First Minister in a week, in an hour? Will Labour’s no confidence motion in the whole Scottish government pass or not? And yet, as the immediate once again drives out the important, what we should really be talking about with urgency is the climate and biodiversity crises. The current political crisis does impact on those bigger, more important … [Read more...] about What about climate policies in this political crisis?
Labour’s green gaffe plays into Far Right hands
Europe's farmers are in the vanguard of protests against the EU's Green New Deal (and other policy issues affecting their livelihoods) across the continent. In Brussels, as EU leaders finally approved a €50bn aid package for Ukraine at their February 1 summit on the Rue de la Loi, Flemish farmers were pulling down statues and burning manure on the Place'Lux 500m down the … [Read more...] about Labour’s green gaffe plays into Far Right hands