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