Published in The Conversation, 6th February 2026, by Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading An environmental expert from Nigeria, a climate policy consultant from Kenya, an oceanographer from Indonesia and an Indigenous social development specialist from the Philippines will are among dozens of experts in the UK this month as the UN’s top climate …
This was the first COP (the 30th Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), since global average temperatures exceeded 1.5°C in 2024 – an alarming indicator of the accelerating climate crisis. As the world approaches dangerous tipping points, COP30 needed to urgently shift from commitments to implementation, and from …
By Matthew Crighton, sustainable jobs advisor, Friends of the Earth Scotland . Featured image credit Pexels Pixabay. 18th November 2025 Imagine living in a society in which polluters pay the full price of damage to our environment; enough public investment flows into climate change programmes to guarantee that we meet our commitments; and actions needed …
A report by Danyel Van Reenen, 21st May 2025, STV News. Featured image by Pixa Pexels on Pexels.com The UK’s climate watchdog has warned that Scotland needs to take “immediate action at pace and scale” to cut its emissions after ministers axed a series of policy pledges. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) is calling for …
COP29 Baku, Azerbaijan November 2024 Featured image © Marie Jacquemin / Greenpeace World leaders gathered in Azerbaijan to discuss climate change goals at Cop29. (COP stands for UN Conference of the parties). The location – a fossil fuel producing country – has been controversial, while the election of Donald Trump raises questions about the United …
A very pertinent piece by the late Alison Prince writing in 1990. Reflecting on the coming of the Year 2000, it echos, or rather precedes, the similar themes and issues that define the current questions concerning humankind’s relationship with the earth, and the conversations happening at the recent international climate conferences. Extracts from The Arran …
Last month, MSPs voted on scrapping Scotland’s climate targets, and legislation that will see Scotland move to using five year carbon budgets to set climate targets was passed. At this pivotal time Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coordinated an open letter to the First Minister, signed by over 70 organisations across Scotland, including Arran’s Eco Savvy, …
By Sally Campbell “It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich PART ONE STOP LIME DOWN SOLAR FARM, NEAR SHERSTON A couple of years ago in Voice for Arran (Issue 119, February 2021, Issue 127 October 2021*), I wrote about private equity companies, carbon credits and buying …
By Mike Small, writing in Bella Caledonia, 29th August 2024. Featured image credit Anoop VS on Pexels.com Following the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in June in Sarah Finch’s case against an oil field in Surrey (see article in the Voice for Arran here) the UK Government has just this week, conceded that approving licences for …
By Sally Campbell The Election is done; we have, we hope a more “grown up” Prime Minister and Cabinet whose horizons are longer than a day, but who cautions us all about the time needed to get the UK back to a less divided society, with realistic goals over periods of time. In a society …