Category: Blog
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Politicians are underestimating how popular environmental policies are
Would the public support a new wind farm being built on their doorstep? According to MPs, no. A survey of MPs last year found that they were twice as likely to think their constituents would oppose a wind development (43%) than support it (19%). Yet when you ask the public themselves you get a dramatically different answer. More…
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Climate change: Scottish farming needs help to reduce its stubbornly high greenhouse gas emissions
First published in the Scotsman. There was good news and bad news in Scotland’s latest climate emissions statistics, published last week. The good news is that our emissions have fallen significantly over the past decades, down nearly 50 per cent since 1990. The bad news is that we missed our 2021 target, meaning we have even…