Carbon emissions

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.