A week-long series of events delivering practical assistance and advice to help Scotland become a net zero nation will be officially opened on Monday 8 August 2022 by Patrick Harvie as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights will be the keynote speaker at the […]
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BNP Paribas Real Estate Next X locational analysis research has revealed that Glasgow and Edinburgh are in the top 10 greenest cities to invest in across the UK. Glasgow scored a 0.85 coming second to Cambridge at 1.29. Edinburgh is just behind Glasgow scoring 0.75 with Milton Keynes and Swansea rounding out the top five.
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Orkney’s manufacturing businesses will be the first in Scotland to benefit from new sustainable manufacturing hubs, helping them strengthen employees’ knowledge of environmental matters and achieve net-zero status. Set to open this year, the new hubs, led by the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), operated by the University of Strathclyde, will support organisations to lower
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As part of the Making More of the Coast project, an initiative created by the Rotary Club of Dumfries Devorgilla and Solway Firth Partnership (SFP), students from Dumfries and Galloway College (DGC) were asked to create a series of materials to raise awareness of plastic pollution on beaches on the Solway Coast. This is not the first
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Skyscanner, the global travel search site, founded in Edinburgh in 2003 and with around 90m monthly users, has strengthened their commitment to tackling climate change by partnering with Pawprint, the carbon reducing employee engagement platform. As of this month, every one of Skyscanners 1,100 global employees across nine offices has been invited to use Pawprint
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Scotland’s leading dental group is to take a central role sharing its sustainability milestones, targets and hopes for the wider sector at the upcoming Scottish Dental Show. As part of its ambition to becoming Scotland’s environmentally friendly dentist, Clyde Munro Dental Group has taken the inaugural role of net zero sponsors at the biggest event
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Drinks company BrewDog is taking major steps to reduce its carbon footprint with the commissioning of a new green gas plant that will power the production of over 176 million pints of beer a year at its Ellon headquarters in Scotland. The company said the new £12m bio-energy plant will result in 7,500 less tonnes
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A national membership body has been awarded funding that will help charities and social enterprises take steps to address climate change. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) received £33,164 from Scottish walking charity, Paths for All as part of their ‘The Smarter Choices, Smarter Places’ (SCSP) COP26 Legacy Fund – a programme designed to help tackle
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A multi million pound grant fund has opened to support people across Scotland to travel in more active and sustainable ways. Community, public and third sector organisations can now apply to the Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Open Fund which has £5 million worth of grants available this year alone – double the amount available previously.
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A multi-billion pound bid for an ambitious air, sea and rail economic zone on the River Clyde, backed by a unique public private partnership, is being finalised. Plans for Clyde Green Freeport are being prepared by AGS Airports’ Glasgow Airport, Peel Ports’ Clydeport, Mossend International Railfreight Park in North Lanarkshire and a partnership of the
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