Environment

New measures to make Scotland a world-leader in managing fisheries stocks have been published for consultation.

Views on a draft future catching policy are being sought along with plans to roll-out Remote Electronic Monitoring systems for boats fishing in Scottish waters.

Climate Festival: Greening your event

The March Climate Festival Forum is a chance to learn about greening your events.

Scotland's Census is now live and you should complete it by 20th March - you can easily do it online on the Scotland's Census website.

It is important that you contribute to the Census as the information you provide will be vital to help the Scottish Government make important decisions that affect people’s lives and their communities. 

To celebrate International Women’s Day with this year’s theme ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’, we talked to Clare Cooper, the co-initiator of Bioregioning Tayside – one of the first bioregional initiatives in Scotland responding to the climate and biodiversity crises. Their Inception Group consists entirely of women, who each with their unique expertise help to bring bioregioning projects in Tayside to life.

 

A new partnership approach will be embedded across the education and skills system to ensure employers and government are working together to deliver training opportunities for the new green jobs of the future.

Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation recognises the critical importance of providing the current and future workforce with lifetime access to learning new skills, upskilling and retraining as part of plans to unlock Scotland’s economic potential.

Have your say on litter and flytipping in Scotland

To engage with as many people, businesses and organisations as possible with the consultation, Zero Waste Scotland is hosting two public webinars on behalf of the Scottish Government.  These webinars will be open to all and live across our social media channels and website.  

Agroforestry: Non-harvest income sources

Did you know that you don’t need to cut down or harvest trees to reap economic benefits from them? Join us in this webinar to hear from experts, farmers and crofters about their experience leveraging trees-on-farm to support their farm’s resilience and bottom-line, and ask your questions about:

SCCAN Community Climate Action Networking

Join community led climate advocates across Scotland. Share ways of tackling personal & political challenges as change-makers seeking a fairer, more just society.

Learn what we can do together in our regions to build networks, increase capacity and act effectively.

A new National Strategy for Economic Transformation, underpinned by detailed analysis of Scotland’s economic strengths and weaknesses, has been published.

The strategy contains over 70 actions across five key priority programmes that have been identified as having the greatest potential to deliver economic growth that significantly outperforms the last decade within the current constitutional arrangements.

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