That is quite a significant piece of research and well presented
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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And it is not just Cop insiders who are worried. For many outside the vast white air-conditioned conference halls, the question, as this year’s summit begins, will be: what is the point?
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Lanarkshire data centre to rely fully on National Grid despite renewables claim
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It's dubbed ‘Scotland’s renewables rip-off’. Billions of pounds which could be going into Scottish government coffers for public services are flowing out of the country to foreign and private companies due to how the SNP has shaped the renewables industry.
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Heat is accumulating in Earth’s systems at an accelerating rate, the UN’s weather agency has reported as the Cop31 climate change summit begins in Turkey, with 2026 on track to be one of the four warmest years on record.
The imbalance between incoming energy from the sun and energy leaving Earth reached its highest level since monitoring began, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its State of the Global Climate update.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/09/cop31-climate-extremes-earth-global-heating
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The Herald article by Neil Mackay one post back certainly worth a read. Scotland is getting very poor value from the ScotWind licences. The SNIB (Scottish National Investment Bank) could do a lot more and in fact Wales seems to be more ambitious.
Manufacturing in the Highlands hasn't taken off either - Ming Yang wind turbine factory proposal still considered a security risk. Meanwhile huge AI warehouses full of foreign components aren't? The proposed turbine factory would have created lots of real jobs where the energy surplus is - the company has asked UKGov to look again at the decision.Posted 3 days ago # -
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UK households face rush to find green energy installer to beat April VAT hike
Ministers pushed to reverse ‘policy madness’ of scrapping exemption on 5% tax rise for heat pumps, solar panels and batteries
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Whether you were wading through floods or struggling through a heatwave, 2026 was the year when you could hardly miss our extreme weather. Temperatures in the summer topped 30C for 33 days in a row. Months earlier, some parts of the UK saw 40 consecutive days of rain.
The BBC's climate editor Justin Rowlatt investigates the impact of climate change on our weather. He speaks to scientists who warn that hotter summers and wetter winters are likely to become more typical, and looks at if enough is being done to adapt our towns and cities to the changing climate. Justin asks, as the cost of living continues to bite, are governments under pressure to ditch some green policies, or do they remain committed to tackling climate change?
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Scotland's busiest air terminal may be having a record-breaking year amid continuing rapid passenger growth, but the complaints to The Scotsman about the state of the facility and its ability to cope are continuing to mount.
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António Guterres calls for ‘clear next steps’ as countries face pressure to agree concrete measures
Turkey and Australia, the co-hosts of crucial climate talks, must urgently move from discussing the end of fossil fuels to delivering it, the UN chief has said.
“It is long past time to stop treating the transition away from fossil fuels as taboo or intractable,” António Guterres said, in a dramatic intervention on the second day of the conference on Tuesday.
“Now, here at Cop31, we must move from discussing the transition to organising it, financing it, and delivering it.”
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‘We said no, no, no, but they kept insisting’: the Paraguayan people battling a eucalyptus empire
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Ed Miliband: climate crisis puts national security of all countries at risk
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Ed Miliband will tell the Cop31 UN climate summit on Wednesday that security and defence objectives are the new “frontier” of climate action, because the rapid heating of the planet will lead to food shortages, widespread economic disruption, migration and conflict.
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Cop31 live: ‘Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs’ - UN chief hits out at industry lobbying
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US and rest of world must follow China’s lead on green energy, says John Kerry
Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/10/china-green-energy-john-kerry-cop31
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Why are Britain’s streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them
This is how it works. An industry puts tremendous effort into resisting change: lobbying governments, mobilising the media, pouring money into junktanks. It argues that a transition would threaten jobs, or damage the national interest, or harm poor people, while what it really fears is the cost of retooling its plants or developing new protocols. Then, when the inevitable cliff edge approaches, it whines that change is coming too soon. For reasons beyond its control, it isn’t ready, so the government must delay its plans.
This is what triggered the Dutch nitrate crisis, and the UK’s repeated “emergency” exemptions from the ban on a devastating class of pesticides. Now the same dynamic is driving the UK’s crisis over the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). The result is that, as the global climate summit, Cop31, begins, it looks as if our gift to the world will be a major, predictable and entirely avoidable increase in the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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An EV transition doesn’t solve all of our transport issues. We should be reducing transport demand, through a shift towards the 15-minute city model of which Paris is an exemplar. We need better and safer provision for cyclists and pedestrians. We need more investment in public transport. But if we can’t even get the end-of-pipe – or end-of-the-tailpipe – issue right, what hope is there for the rest of the system?
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‘The world we know is over’ without urgent climate action, leaders tell Cop31
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