Carbon Conversations at the Himalayan Centre
The Himalayan Centre’s Carbon Conversations is a programme of six free weekly sessions that aims to support people wanting to reduce their environmental impact.
Scotland
Film Screening: A Dangerous Game
This event is organised by Glasgow Greenpeace group.
A Dangerous Game follows on from the highly acclaimed Tripping up Trump, which documented Donald Trump's development of a high class golf resort. Director Anthony Baxter returns to the Menie estate, near Balmedie in Aberdeenshire to document what has been happening since the last film.
Spokes autumn public meeting
Cycling Development in the Lothians
The Spokes Autumn public meeting will feature senior councillors from East, Mid and West Lothian, plus Edinburgh City.
Spokes is often asked to give more coverage to cycling developments in the Lothians - and links between Edinburgh and the Lothians. Our autumn public meeting will therefore be on this topic.
Speakers:
East Lothian – Cllr Michael Veitch [Con] Depute Council Leader
UN Climate Summit in New York
22 September 2014
Tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd September, world leaders will meet in New York to discuss the crucial issue of climate change.
Over the weekend, a large demonstration of over 2,000 people gathered in Edinburgh to call for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This coincided with demonstrations across the world, including a march of 400,000 in New York City itself.
SCCS response to outcome of Scottish independence referendum
19 September 2014
Responding to the result of the Scottish independence referendum, Tom Ballantine, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland said:
Scotland's Climate Action Story
If the video is not displaying correctly below, please view it on YouTube.
The original film is also available with French or Spanish subtitles:
L'aventure climatique de l'Écosse, version française (sous-titres)
La Acción por el Clima en Escocia, versión española (subtítulos)
For more detail about Scotland's climate action, please read our accompanying briefing note (PDF format):
Scotland’s Climate Action Story briefing
Scotland’s Climate Action Story briefing (French)
People's Climate Gathering, Glasgow
On 23rd September, global leaders will join UN General Secretary, Ban Ki Moon, in New York to discuss the critical issue of climate change.
Community Energy Fortnight
13th - 28th September
Community Energy Fortnight is an opportunity to explore and celebrate how communities across the UK are generating, owning and saving energy.
Doors will be opened to projects up and down the country – from seeing inside a wind turbine to building your own solar panel – giving you a chance to see local renewables projects up-close and meet the people who are directly benefitting from them.
Reinventing our Economy conference
How can we make our economy deliver wellbeing and sustainability?
There’s a widespread view that it’s time to steer our economy in a new direction, with:
- Growing inequality, high unemployment, growing in-work poverty.
- Economic development drives climate change and resource depletion.
- The threats of future crises in the financial system remain.
Public debate: Wellbeing, Equality and Environment
How can we make our economy deliver wellbeing and sustainability?
There’s a widespread view that it’s time to steer our economy in a new direction, with:
- Growing inequality, high unemployment, growing in-work poverty.
- Economic development drives climate change and resource depletion.
- The threats of future crises in the financial system remain.