Highly-skilled North Sea workforce must be ‘retrained and redeployed’ for low-carbon work – CCC report
The UK’s highly-skilled oil and gas workforce must be ‘retrained and redeployed’ to work in low carbon industries, according to advisors.
The UK’s highly-skilled oil and gas workforce must be ‘retrained and redeployed’ to work in low carbon industries, according to advisors.
The Prime Minister is facing pressure from campaigners to commit to climate action in the latest call for a "green recovery" from the pandemic.
A new £30 million fund for low-carbon heating infrastructure is now open for projects to make applications.
Scotland produced nearly double the amount of wind energy required to power every home in the country between January and June 2019.
Wind developer Orsted has pledged to "work closely" with regulators to decrease the firm's impact on the sea life and ecosystem under a new policy.
Most of Scotland's energy demand was met by wind power in October, according to a weather data firm.
Wind turbines produced enough electricity to power nearly three million homes in Scotland last month, according to WeatherEnergy figures.
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.
There is overwhelming public support for more action on climate change, according to a poll by WWF Scotland.
Belize, a holiday destination to the rich and famous, has chosen to indefinitely end all new oil exploration projects in and around its shores.
Scotland must continue to build on the success of its renewable energy industry in the new year, campaigners and industry groups have said.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has filed a lawsuit in Greece over extensive pollution along Athens’ coastline following the sinking of a tanker near the port of Piraeus.
Norway's hydrocarbon exploration could be infringing upon the Paris Climate Agreement.
Wind turbines generated enough energy to cover two-thirds of Scotland’s total electricity consumption last month, according to figures.
Scotland set two new wind power records over Christmas, according to figures released today by a conservation body.
Official figures published yesterday reveal mixed fortunes for traditional fossil fuel and wind-energy output in the UK.
Over three fifths of Scots would like to see Scotland generate all of its electricity from renewable sources, according to a new poll.
Scottish homes with solar panels would have received enough energy from the sun to meet their entire electricity consumption last month, according to environmentalists.
A decade after David Cameron posed with huskies in the Arctic to show his green credentials, environmentalists say they are still waiting for “cleaner, greener” government.
Scotland’s solar power capacity went up by more than a quarter over the past year, new figures show. WWF Scotland and the Solar Trade Association, which jointly published the statistics, welcomed the expansion, and called for the Scottish Government to encourage even greater uptake of the technology.
Political parties in Scotland should commit to a national strategy to help businesses and consumers reduce and manage their demand for electricity, environmental and energy groups have said. WWF Scotland and Edinburgh-based company Flexitricity have stressed that implementing a concerted strategy regarding electricity consumption would mean Scotland could avoid the need to build expensive new fossil fuel power stations and more rapidly cut climate emissions. The groups also asserted that such a strategy must go beyond energy efficiency, and include measures to increasingly tap into the vast existing “invisible“ power network of industrial, commercial and public sector organisations.
Almost a third of the world’s natural World Heritage Sites face the risk of oil and gas drilling or mining, a report has warned. In Africa, almost two-thirds (61%) of the continent’s world-renowned natural sites are under threat of exploration for fossil fuels or minerals, the study by conservation organisation WWF, Aviva Investors and Investec Asset Management found. The 31% of World Heritage Sites under threat worldwide range from Africa’s first national park, Virunga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to critically endangered mountain gorillas, to China’s Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Last week, I was in a small tent on the vast Greenland ice sheet with a leading British glaciologist investigating and documenting the alarming rate of ice flow and melt as a result of climate change.
Scotland’s electricity system could be powered almost entirely by renewable energy by 2030, according to a report by an environmental charity. WWF Scotland’s report uses independent analysis by an engineering and energy consultancy to test the Scottish Government’s policy to decarbonise the country’s electricity supply over the next 15 years. It found that an electricity system based on “proven renewables and increased energy efficiency” is a credible way of meeting the target.