Carbon-free, Poverty-free

Primary Author or Creator:
Keith Baker Dr Ron Mould Dr Craig Dalzell Jonathon Shafi
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Ron Mould, Craig Dalzell, Jonathon Shafi
Publisher:
Common Weal
Alternative Published Date
2019
Category:
Type of Resource:
Report
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
56pp
Fast Facts

Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics

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"We recommend that the Scottish Government considers the potential of managed rural landscapes, such as grouse moors, to be reclaimed for providing land for renewable energy, biomass, forestry, agriculture, horticulture and housing, and for generating new employment, regeneration and tourism opportunities in relation to these. Common Weal, along with Andy Wightman MSP and many others campaigning for land reform, has long argued that land reform should be considered an essential component of meeting the Scottish Government’s climate change targets and its wider environmental, social and economic agendas."

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