Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

Thanks to all our members for your support in 2024 - joining together at key moments to keep climate a priority issue, making our voices heard, and taking messages to decision makers. And a special thanks and welcome to our 13 new members who joined in 2024! We look forward to continuing our climate campaigning together in 2025. 💚 🌍 🙌 Community Transport Association ECCAN - Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland Glasgow Eco Trust Local Storytelling Exchange, One Parent Families Scotland West Lothian Climate Action Network Hub Ltd Young Sea Changers Scotland EcoArts, Paperboats, People's Health Movement Scotland, SANE Collective, Uplift

🚨 We warmly welcome this new @scotgov consultation on community benefits: https://lnkd.in/dGn9edra  Now is the time to be ambitious and make bold improvements to the guidance.  We encourage our members and stakeholders to respond.     Together we can work towards a fair deal from the energy transition for communities across Scotland.    As part of the Scottish Community Coalition on Energy we’ve set out 6 recommendations for the Scottish and UK Governments in our paper on New Standards for Community Benefits: https://lnkd.in/dJnYT4mi   Community Land Scotland Development Trusts Association Scotland  

We've prepared a briefing for MSPs to help with their scrutiny of the budget over the coming weeks. We encourage them to investigate issues relating to key sectors, including: 💰Whether the £4.9billion allocated to “investment with a positive benefit for climate” includes policies that will have a direct impact on emission reductions 💰A review of how the budget for Just Transition is being spent, to ensure it delivers positive social, environmental and job creation outcomes 💰To press for an increase to the active travel budget so that it can fully deliver a significant modal shift of short journeys away from cars Full briefing here: https://lnkd.in/gJJzEM4t

ICYMI: What we need to see in the Scottish Government's long overdue plan for reducing car use. New SCCS trustee Jim Densham outlines our views in Sunday's The National, including: ➡️ The largest source of climate-damaging emissions in Scotland is transport (nearly a third) and the biggest contributor by far is car use. ➡️ We know that people in Scotland want safe and convenient routes to walk and cycle, and more frequent, reliable and affordable public transport. ➡️ The Scottish Government needs to prioritise providing more and better transport choices, so we aren’t forced to use a car. ➡️ Cars will still play their part, but national and local government needs to make it an easier choice to leave the car at home. ➡️ In the fight for a cleaner planet and a safer climate, it’s time to get serious and re-think, re-design and re-imagine how we move through our streets, towns, cities and countryside. https://lnkd.in/eF8VMhEP

We are at a pivotal point in Scotland's climate journey. Legislation to revise Scotland's legal climate framework has now passed, and the Scottish elections are on the horizon. There can be no more delay in delivering robust and fair climate action across all parts of our society, bringing much-needed benefits to our health, economy, and planet. We’ve joined over 70 organisations and called on the First Minister to act and commit increased fair funding to: 🚏 Enable people to walk, wheel and cycle safely, and get about quickly and easily on an affordable and reliable public transport network; 🏠Power our homes through cleaner forms of heating and ensure they are properly insulated, protecting households from the risk of fuel poverty and improving health. 👩🌾 Support farmers, crofters and fisheries to manage our land and seas in ways that protect and restore nature and reduce emissions, cutting food waste and promoting healthy and sustainable diets; and ♻️ Help people develop the skills needed for a new low carbon, circular economy, and deploy fast, fair and managed plans to fully transition away from reliance on polluting fossil fuels Read our letter here: https://bit.ly/4fsPgEq

NEW: SCCS & SCCAN autumn climate action workshops! 💚 🌍 🍂 We're excited to be partnering with Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) on a series of lunchtime events to explore what’s happening with climate action in Scotland and how we can work together for climate justice.  Join us next week for our first event, where we'll be joined by speakers from our members RSPB Scotland, Christian Aid Scotland, WWF Scotland and Community Transport Association Scotland. Sign up to get up to speed with the latest political developments and learn more about the next steps for climate action across different sectors in Scotland. Find out about campaigns you can get involved in to make a difference, and how to speak to MSPs about climate to positively influence the decisions they take in Scotland.  Find out more & sign up ▶️ https://bit.ly/3Yi0pAU

Today's Programme for Government provides some cautious room for optimism, but far too little - we need to urgently accelerate emission cuts in ways that make our homes warmer, our air cleaner and that protect our land and seas. Read our full response ➡ https://bit.ly/3ZbIHBt

This week we are expecting the First Minister to confirm the legislation and priorities that will be delivered this year. This will be a critical test of whether his government will turn a failing record on climate into commitments to take meaningful action that will make our homes warmer, air cleaner and properly protect our land and seas. Our members Cycling UK, WWF Scotland, RSPB Scotland and Uplift explain what those actions need to include: https://lnkd.in/ejE5iugG

We've published a review of the new Scottish Government Aviation Statement. Read our views on why the lack of action to reduce the climate impacts of aviation will mean our climate progress stays grounded, rather than taking off towards reaching net zero https://lnkd.in/gvKrhfd3

We've shared views on the Scottish Government's proposed switch from annual emission reduction targets to carbon budgets. Whichever system is used must: ✅ Establish and ensure the necessary framework and pathway to meeting the net zero target by 2045 at the latest ✅ Recognise that early action is especially important in order to address significant and systemic challenges ✅ Provide for regular monitoring, reporting and scrutiny of progress (ideally, at least annually) to assess the effectiveness of actions taken and develop recommendations to address any lack of progress. Alongside this Bill, it's also vital that steps are taken to significantly improve delivery in devolved areas, for example proceeding with the Heat in Buildings Bill. Read our submission here: https://lnkd.in/ektbE6p6 Have your say here: https://lnkd.in/et6MsXV9