Scotland is outperforming the rest of the UK in reducing greenhouse gas emissions - but success in areas such as energy and waste is masking a lack of action in other sectors, a report has said.
Scotland's electricity distribution networks have been urged to boost support for vulnerable customers.
Scotland's economy has "lagged behind" that of other advanced small nations, according to a report which put the country bottom of the list for a key performance measure.
The announcement of a publicly-owned Scottish Energy Company to take on the fat-cats and send prices tumbling served its immediate, and perhaps only, purpose – i.e. it had last October’s SNP conference whooping and cheering.
Wind turbines in Scotland provided a 44% increase in power to the National Grid during the first quarter of 2018, compared to the same period last year, environmental groups have said.
Scottish goods exports have risen by nearly a fifth, with oil and gas the fastest rising, according to new figures.
Scotland has been dubbed the “sickie” capital of the UK with more workers faking illness than in any other part of Britain.
Powers over onshore oil and gas licensing are the latest to be handed to Holyrood in the wake of the independence referendum.
In reaction to a slump in the small-scale energy sector, ten member organisations have joined forces to call on the UK Government to set out the future of the Feed-in Tariff.
A Holyrood Committee has expressed concerns over how cash for tackling climate change has been allocated in this year’s budget.
Brexit could reduce business investment in Scotland by £1 billion by 2019, a new report on the state of the economy has warned.
The carbon footprint of Scottish households has fallen by 25% on average since new legislation committing to greenhouse gas reductions was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2009.
Hywind Scotland, the first floating wind farm in the world, has started to deliver electricity to the Scottish grid today. Watch the video to learn more about this world first.
The recent announcement by the Scottish Government of their ideas for Scotland’s economic future certainly got my attention. The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a speech just prior to the announcement that she believed that Scotland had to lead the “key technological and social changes of the future”. Significantly, she added that she wants Scotland to be “the inventor and producer of the innovations that will shape the future, not just a consumer of those innovations”.
Figures released today indicate Scotland continues to set the agenda for renewable energy electricity production in the UK.
Wind farms in Scotland generated enough electricity in August to power nine out ten of all Scottish households, new figures reveal.
Scotland and a Japanese organisation will stump up funds totalling £15million for joint research projects focusing on subsea technology.
Scotland will be at the forefront of the future of oil and gas, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury will claim today as Offshore Europe gets under way in Aberdeen today.
The head of Aberdeen’s new oil technology centre said people were missing their chance to have an “intelligent debate” on fracking in Scotland.
Scotland’s deficit has been cut to £13.3billion over the past year.
Scotland will be processing the entirety of the UK’s battery waste before the end of 2017.
The possibility of releasing new powers to Holyrood will be discussed in talks between the UK and Scottish Governments in Edinburgh.
The Scottish economy grew in the first three months of the year, staving off fears of a recession.
Economic experts have warned it is “in the balance” whether or not Scotland formally goes into recession next week.
Charles Ritchie, founder of Peterhead based oil and gas engineering firm Score Group, has died aged 69.