Environment
Best Practice Adoption in Scotland’s Built Environment Industry Roundtable Report
Author / Creator: Claire Brady
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
There is low awareness best practices for waste reduction in the constgruction industry.
Circular Jobs Tracker
Author / Creator: Lucas Scally
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
How many jobs are in the circular economy?
Exploring circular economy engagement among Scottish businesses
Author / Creator: Zero Waste Scotland
Date published: 2026
Resources, support, and willingness to expand
Happiness isn’t utopian – and it isn’t about GDP
Author / Creator: Pat
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2026
There’s a 91% chance that at least one of the next five years will shoot past the 1.5C threshold.
Circular Jobs Tracker Report
Author / Creator: Lucas Scally
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
Estimates of the number of circular jobs within the Scottish economy as well as their characteristics.
Trialling Recycling Interventions to Increase Food Waste Collections
Author / Creator: Zero Waste Sc
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
A suite of reports on the impacts of different interventions on increasing participation in food waste recycling.
Resources
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Proposal
Date published: 2026
Scotland has amazing resources - but we waste them
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland; Emergent Ecologies of a Nation
Author / Creator: Susan Oliver
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature.
Cairngorm Mountains
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
Date published: 2026
the UK government quietly published its own (delayed) report on ‘Global Diversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security’. The contents are so shocking the government tried to bury it. The climate crisis is a national security risk.
Glasgow Data Catalogue 2025
Author / Creator: Chrissie Blair
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Data on environmental, energy, transport, economic, health, and inequality indicators relevant to the City of Glasgow
The Guga Hunters
Author / Creator: Alice Millar Thompson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The Sula Sgeir gannet hunt, or “guga hunt,” is a centuries-old Scottish tradition where men from Ness (Isle of Lewis) sail to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir in August to harvest young gannets (guga) for food.
Zero Waste Scotland: A Decade of Delivery
Author / Creator: Zero Waste Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The progress of the Zero Waste Scotland organisation toward a circular economy.
A Feasibility Study of Regional Materials Hubs in Scotland
Author / Creator: Net Positive Solutions Ltd
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
The feasibility of reuse hubs in Scotland
Quantifying Glasgow's Emissions Reductions: A Data-Driven Analysis from 2005 to 2022
Author / Creator: Jack Williamson
Media type: Research Report
Date published: 2024
The main driver of the reduction in emissions for Glasgow has been the decarbonisation of electricity.
Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT)
Author / Creator: Donald Chapman
Media type: Article
Date published:
The Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT) provides a holistic picture of the environmental impact of the things we dispose of from our homes.
Building a New Scotland: Our marine sector in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: White paper
Date published: 2024
Scotland’s marine sector is an area of significant size, strength and value.
Building a New Scotland: Our marine sector in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: White paper
Date published: 2024
Scotland’s marine sector is an area of significant size, strength and value.
Scottish salmon industry challenged over move to drop ‘farmed’ from labels
Author / Creator: Haroon Siddique
Media type: Newspaper article
Date published: 2024
Animal welfare campaigners are challenging the decision to allow producers of Scottish salmon to drop the word “farmed” from labelling.
An application by the industry body claimed changing the protected name wording on the front of packaging from “Scottish farmed salmon” to “Scottish salmon” made sense because wild salmon was no longer sold in supermarkets, which consumers were aware of.
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.
Ending the Sale of Peat in Scotland
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2023
The extraction of peat must end.