XR Scotland statement on Scottish Government scrapping its critical 2030 climate commitments.

In an unprecedented act of coordinated international climate protest, activists from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are taking action today in solidarity with each other against new North Sea oil and gas extraction. Under the campaign North Sea Fossil Free acts of civil disobedience are happening all around the North Sea.

It was XR Scotland’s turn on Friday to join Insure Our Future’s global week of action and send a clear message to the insurance industry. Stop insuring new and fossil fuel projects and insure our future instead. We also had a surprise for one insurance company.

Climate campaigners from Extinction Rebellion Scotland, Divest Lothian and Global Justice Now Scotland staged a dance protest to highlight the flawed climate risk models used by pension funds and to call on the funds to stop investing in fossil fuels.

XR UK and XR Scotland are joining Insure our Future’s global week of action.

A new water-based group, XR Scotland Orcas, is taking to the seas to act for a better future for our planet and our communities.

As the climate crisis happens all around us with heatwaves, droughts, floods, sea level rise and wild fires we (the mass of the population) still do nothing about it.

Just because it’s not happening here (in the UK) , it doesn’t mean it’s not happening all over the planet.

It feels impossible. The world has to slash carbon emissions by almost half in the next seven years to remain on track for just 1.5C of global heating and avoid the worst of climate impacts. Yet emissions are rising.

The Big One saw XR Scotland join tens of thousands of people in London to demand a better society. It was a huge, beautiful moment seeing so many groups come together. Protest in Parliament Square However, we know we are in it for the long-haul and we know there is ...