In the first contribution to our Glasgow public meeting on Stopping North Sea Oil and Gas, Ryan Morrison from Friends of the Earth Scotland introduced the Sea Change Report.
Tag: Film
Scottish Youth Climate Strike
The Edinburgh demonstration on September 20th 2019 was organised by Scottish Youth Climate Strike – Scot.E3 spoke to Sandy one of the organisers.
Edinburgh March – Global Climate Strike
Here’s a brief clip of the Edinburgh march moving down the Royal Mile – 20,000 marched form the Meadows to Holyrood Park
Carbon Capture and Storage
Mainstream policies on tackling the climate crisis centre round the possibilities of continuing to use hydrocarbons while reducing emissions through carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Scottish Government seems increasingly interested in this approach. Over the next few weeks we want to promote critical discussion on CCS. As a first step we are pleased to share the video of a webinar that FOE(Scotland) did with Friends of the Earth International on BECCS (bioenergy carbon and capture and storage). Please comment and send ideas for more contributions and other resources that it would be useful to share.
American Climate Rebels
A post from REEL News
In 2018, Reel News went on a 14 week tour of North America to look at grassroots struggles around climate change, particularly struggles around a “just transition” from fossil fuels to renewable energy, where workers and communities control the process so that they benefit from the transition, and around “just recovery” – recovery from extreme weather events which do not exascerbate current inequalities.
What we found were inspiring and visionary struggles all over the continent, led by working class communities of colour, with people organising just transitions and just recoveries themselves. Now, we’ll be presenting what we found in the form of a weekly online 11 episode series starting on Sunday April 14th – 7pm UK time, 3pm New York City time, Midday California time.
Episode 1 is about Alberta, Canada, where the long oil sands boom has come to an end. Falling oil prices are leading to thousands of job losses – which has started a serious conversation in the labour movement about transitioning away from oil to renewables. The need is becoming more urgent as the big oil sands companies look to maximise profits and slash even more jobs through automation. This film looks at a number of initiatives, the history of oppression of First Nations people to get the resources in the first place, and a rare chance to hear from oil sands workers themselves, including women and First Nations workers.
With the current growing uprising over climate change giving renewed hope, we’re hoping that this will not only inspire you further – but will also help a little in putting the idea of just transition at the forefront of the movement.
Arms, diversification, jobs and transitions
Brian Parkin continues the theme of arms production, diversification, jobs and just transitions
Defence diversification and just transition
More from the #justtransitions conference: Andrew Feinstein director of Corruption watch speaking on the arms trade, diversification and just transitions @EdinburghCAAT #scote3
Skills and resources for a just transition
The third contribution to the introductory session at the #justtransitionsconference was from Brian Parkin who outlined the resources and skills that will underpin the transition to a zero carbon economy.
Scotland and a just transition
Also in the first session at the #justtransitions conference Matthew Crighton from Friends of the Earth Scotland looked at the Scottish context and the opportunities and challenges that presents.
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Neale from the Campaign Against Climate Change was the first contributor to the Just Transitions Conference organised by Scot.E3 on 17th November in Edinburgh
Employment, Energy and Environment 