Budget and Spending Review, Autumn 2021

Budget and Spending Review, Autumn 2021

Yesterday saw the Chancellor stand up in front of a masked Commons to present this year’s Autumn Budget. We’ve held back our weekly email to give you the headlines. As had been widely previewed in the press, economic recovery is happening faster than the Office for...
Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener

Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener

On 19th October 2021, the Prime Minister published the Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener policy paper, detailing policies and proposals to decarbonise all sectors of the UK economy in order to meet the 2050 zero carbon target. With the aim of establishing a net...
Let’s not get left in the cold

Let’s not get left in the cold

One of my neighbours, who shall remain nameless, continues to challenge me on the purpose of COP26. How will it actually affect us? Isn’t it all, as climate activist Greta Thunberg has suggested, just “blah, blah, blah”? In truth, faith in COP26 becoming a genuinely...
Is the Dear Green Place really that Green?

Is the Dear Green Place really that Green?

Glasgow translates from Gaelic as “place of the green hollow”, which over the years has been adapted as “dear green place”. I had always been told that this was because of the number of parks and greenspaces in the city, and indeed, data produced as part of Scotland’s...