Climate Emergency
A real Green New Deal for Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2024
The world is under threat from ... environmental crises and Scotland ...has enduring social failures like poverty and inequality. ... But both can be tackled if we take them head-on and plan for them.
Education for Transformation: Rethinking education in a time of ecological and social crisis
Author / Creator: Mike Langdon
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
It is only by mainlining the adoption of degrowth education that Scotland can begin to move to systems of educational practice that begin to address the multiple emergencies we face
Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Full Report
Author / Creator: IPCC
Media type: Scientific report
Date published: 2021
This report gives the current state of climate change at 2012, the possible climate futures, risk assessments for regions of the world, and the actions required to limit future climate change.
IPCC Special; with 21 Actions for Scotland to do Right Now
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
Common Weal’s latest policy paper 21 For 21 and actions that the Scottish Government should take immediately in light of the IPCC report.
Common Weal podcast #96
Watershed: the Turning Point for North Sea Oil and the Just Transition
Author / Creator: Rachel Tansey
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: September 2021
No new oil and gas fields can be approved for development. Given the right policies, a just transition can generate more than three jobs in clean industries for every North Sea oil job at risk
21 For 21: The Climate Change Actions Scotland Needs Now
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
21 Policies that would enable Scotland to meet our responsibilities as laid out by the 2021 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Our House is on Fire
Author / Creator: George Gunn
Media type: News Item
Date published:
The collation deal between SNP and Scottish Greens passed in the Scottish Parliament is the beginning of a quest to make clear some definitions and to lead the country away from constitutional meaninglessness, cruel political comedy and out of the deliberately constructed tragic dead end of devolution and toward full engagement with the climate emergency.
Better than This
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that
Fixes the problems raised by the crisis.
Fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient.
Implements a green new deal.
Establishes a new democracy.
Begins a national care service.
Starts land reform.
Creates a housing revolution.
Controls our own energy.
Provides better banking
Focus on independence.