Environment

A Difficult Choice? Inside the UK/Outside the EU vs. Inside the EU/Outside the UK

Author / Creator: Alex Scholes

Media type: Report

Date published: 2024

20% - 30% think there will be no difference to most elements of economic life whether Scotland is in the EU or with UK outside the EU


A Human Rights Bill for Scotland: consultation analysis

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Report

Date published: 2024

Consultation on A Human Rights Bill for Scotland


A’ Dùsgadh na Gaoithe / Waking the Wind; Finding the Folklore of a Fragile Ecology

Author / Creator: Raghnaid Sandilands

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Gaelic language and culture have intimate connections to the environment.


Breaking New Ground? Developing a Scottish tax to replace the UK Aggregates Levy: consultation

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Consultation paper

Date published: 2022

How a new and distinctive Scottish aggregates tax, replacing the UK levy, should be structured and operate.


Independence in the modern world. Wealthier, happier, fairer: why not Scotland?

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Report

Date published: 2022

This paper sets out a detailed analysis of the UK’s performance across a range of economic and social indicators relative to that of ten European countries. 


Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues

Author / Creator: Stephen Maxwell

Media type: Book

Date published: 2012

This book offers a case for independence under six main headings


George Monbiot: Independent Scotland could show a way out of climate crisis

Author / Creator: Spowart, Nan

Media type: newspaper article

Date published:

George Monbiot interview highlights the need for mass mobilisation to combat climate change. The 2014 Scottish Independence movement provides a good example of how to create a mass movement in the 21st century.


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