Carbon emissions
Glasgow Economic and Climate Review 2025
Author / Creator: Glasgow Environmental Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air (GEMINOA)
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Indicators of emissions, air quality, energy, transport, economy, health and inequality in Glasgow.
Forestry carbon – some questions
Author / Creator: Willie McGhee
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2025
Issues relating to forest carbon’s role within the Scottish Government (SG) NetZero strategy, its changing nature and how it is quantified
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.
No New Peterhead Gas
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
Date published:
SSE and Equinor have submitted a planning application for a new gas burning power station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. The application is for an additional plant alongside the existing Peterhead gas burning power station, which is already Scotland’s single biggest polluters.
How Should Scotland Manage its Scrap Steel?’ The environmental assessment.
Author / Creator: Charlotte Stamper
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Zero Waste Scotland’s analysts detail the ‘clear and obvious’ environmental benefits of using Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology, powered by Scotland’s low-carbon electricity grid, to remanufacture scrap steel in Scotland.