Former Greens leader says fossil fuels delegates should be banned from future COP meetings
Fossil fuel companies should be banned from future UN climate change Cop gatherings, a former leader of the Green Party has said.
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Brian Wilson: Serious decisions await on future of Scottish energy sector
With COP26 in Glasgow two months away, one might think Scottish political eyes would be turning towards the issues it will discuss, even if that means parking some other preoccupations for the time being. Not so.
Abandoning oil and gas would be a reckless act of self-sabotage
Reaching net zero is going to be one of the toughest challenges of our generation.
SNP-Green deal would lead to ‘tidal wave’ of oil and gas redundancies, says north-east MP
A potential deal between the SNP and Greens would risk the oil and gas sector “being held at knifepoint”, a north-east MP has claimed.
Tories claim SNP-Green deal will throw oil and gas jobs ‘to the wolves’
Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to ditch talks on a Green government “coalition” over fears for North Sea jobs.
Climate change bill must be tougher on tackling emissions, say Greens
Green MSPs have said they will not back climate change legislation going through Holyrood unless ministers set tougher targets for curbing greenhouse gases.
North Sea oil policy incompatible with climate change push, MSPs told
Maximising oil and gas extraction in the North Sea is incompatible with Scotland’s climate change commitments, the Greens have said.
Row over Greens ‘barmy’ plan to end oil and gas
A row has broken out over “barmy” plans from the Scottish Greens to shut down the North Sea oil and gas industry in “10 or 20 years”.
Opinion: ‘I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay’
A North Sea skit as imagined by Professors Alex Russell and Peter Strachan of Robert Gordon University on behalf of the North Sea oil industry.
‘Shut oil industry and get staff to cut trees’, politicians claim
The Scottish Green Party wants the North Sea oil and gas sector to be wound down - so offshore workers can become lumberjacks.