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OPINION: ‘We haven’t even scratched the surface of decarbonising’

Here Claire Mack, the chief executive of Scottish Renewables, previews the Low Carbon Cities conference happening in Edinburgh on February 20. “Almost a quarter of the world’s population lives in cities, and that figure is growing. The interactions between people, transport and the built environment are enormously powerful, and we’re only just starting to get …

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Beehive pops up in lobby of G&V Royal Mile Hotel in Edinburgh for National Honey Week

A FIVE-STAR hotel will open up its colony of bees to the public in a bid to raise awareness over their importance next week. G&V Royal Mile Hotel in Edinburgh has 180,000 honey bees on the rooftop of its old town property in partnership with keepers Plan Bee Ltd. But they will be putting on …

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Young Friends of the Earth Scotland get ready for their first elections at AGM in Glasgow

THE first AGM held by Young Friends of the Earth Scotland is scheduled to take place in Glasgow next weekend. Elections, training sessions and discussions will be held across two days at Glasgow Autonomous Space in Kilbirnie Street. The activist network is run by campaigners aged between 16 and 30 years old and is part …

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European Environmental Bureau annual conference in Edinburgh to discuss danger of Brexit to world sustainability

A MAJOR conference being held in Edinburgh next month will discuss how the UK’s Tory led departure from Europe could impact on international efforts to protect the environment. Scotland’s environment minister Roseanna Cunningham will be keynote speaker at the European Environmental Bureau’s annual conference hosted at Dynamic Earth. SNP MEP Alyn Smith, Scottish Greens Mark …

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