Patrick Harvie

The latest news and opinion on Patrick Harvie MSP, Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party and Scottish Government minister for zero carbon buildings, active travel and tenants’ rights

Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater need to show they are more serious about climate change (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Are Greens still Green? And if so, are they help or hindrance to climate fight?

Politicians can't scream 'bigot' at parents worried about puberty blockers now Susan Dalgety

Cracks in SNP-Green coalition look set to widen as tensions grow Euan McColm

Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie speaks to the media ahead of the Scottish Green Party conference, at the Water of Leith visitor centre in Edinburgh. Picture date: Friday April 5, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Greens. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Patrick Harvie has hit out at his government partners for failed climate action

Patrick Harvie has lashed out at JK Rowling

Patrick Harvie brands JK Rowling's posts ‘deeply dangerous’

Scottish Green Party leader and zero carbon buildings minister Patrick Harvie

The first phase of £33bn plans to replace boilers has rolled out today

Why the spectre of coercion has eroded my support for assisted dying Euan McColm

The Scottish Government's Housing Bill has been published. Picture: Scott Loudon

Landlords face ban on rent increases under new Scottish Government plans

The Scotsman's Transport Correspondent Alastair Dalton testing the route in Melville Street on Monday. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/The Scotsman)

Major new Edinburgh cycle route opens with key section missing

From left: Patrick Harvie MSP, newly-elected councillor Seonad Hoy, and Councillor Martha Wardrop. Image: Scottish Greens.

History made as Scottish Greens win Glasgow by-election

An Edinburgh mews. Almost 22,000 rental properties may have been removed from the market in Scotland in the last year, research has revealed. Picture: Scott Louden

Almost 22,000 rental properties gone from market amid 'anti-landlord rhetoric'

Liam McArthur is bringing forward a Bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland

New assisted dying report should give public ‘reassurances’, says Lib Dem MSP

A ScotRail train on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow passes near the site of the proposed Winchburgh Station. The previous station closed in 1930. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/The Scotsman)

Why so long to build a station at one of Scotland’s fastest-growing settlements?

Grants are available to help households switch from fossil-fuel home heating to greener electric heat pump systems, but not all properties are suitable

The journey to a new green frontier has begun but I may not be travelling

Patrick Harvie MSP, zero carbon buildings minister and co-leader of the Scottish Greens. Image: Jane Barlow/Press Association.

Patrick Harvie says council tax freeze is 'not sensible'

First Minister Humza Yousaf

Yousaf’s top aide asked Brian Souter to help arrange business dinner

Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater. Image: Jane Barlow/Press Association.

‘Growing’ Scottish Greens plan to stand more candidates at general election

Scottish Green Party leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Kate Forbes ‘building particular faction’ within the SNP, claim Green leaders

Cycling projects under construction include the South City Way in Glasgow. (Photo by Cycling Scotland)

Scottish Budget: Cycling and walking spending £100m short of commitment

Mortgages or home insurance may become dependent on EPC ratings (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Boiler consultation needs a more conciliatory tone - David Alexander

Scottish Green minister Patrick Harvie, seen with other anti-nuclear activists blocking an entrance to the Faslane naval base in 2015, is resolute in his opposition to nuclear energy (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Greens' superstitious dread of nuclear is damaging efforts to reach net zero

Kate Forbes. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Kate Forbes: SNP must end powersharing deal with Greens

Health Secretary Michael Matheson turned down an offer from the UK Government to help cut Scottish NHS waiting lists (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sickening response to UK's offer to help Scottish patients

Heat pumps like this one on a house near Oslo are commonplace in Norway and other Scandinavian countries (Picture: Petter Berntsen/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat pumps are new battleground for those opposed to climate change action

Building work on the new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point C Power Station in Somerset. Image: EDF/SWNS.

Scottish Greens accused of being ‘out-of-step’ in opposing nuclear power

Concern is growing about the failure of the international COP climate change summits to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

COP28 must end three decades of failure to tackle carbon emissions

King Charles III meets with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates - which holds the Cop28 presidency - at Expo City in Dubai on the opening day of the UN climate summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/Getty Images

UN Cop summits are ‘imperfect’ but 'all we’ve got' to tackle climate warming

Scottish Greens minister Patrick Harvie is the face of the Scottish Government's campaign to help the country meet net zero targets (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: Let public have a say in how we heat our homes

Scottish Greens co-leader and Scottish net zero buildings minister Patrick Harvie has outlined proposals for a new Heat in Buildings Bill, which it is hoped will be passed in 2025. Picture: Jane Barlow/Getty Images

All properties to start move from oil and gas boilers to green systems in 2028

Newspaper reports claim Patrick Harvie's plan to force all Scottish homes to have heat pumps by 2025 has been scrapped by the SNP Government, though the Green MSP told Scotland on Sunday the original proposals have been misrepresented (Picture: Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: If Harvie's heat pump plan is dead, Greens should follow

The Heat in Buildings strategy, announced in 2021, is a key part of the Bute House power-sharing agreement between the SNP and Scottish Greens. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Westminster dragging of climate into culture war could cause ‘immense harm’

Plans to close the Grangemouth oil refinery, possibly by spring 2025, demonstrate how difficult the transition to net zero could be for Scotland's economy (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

With SNP-Green coalition in charge, net zero may not be in safe hands

Scottish Green Party co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie during the Scottish Green Party conference at Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline.

Labour and Tories part of 'coalition against change', claim Green co-leaders

Scottish Green Party leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater during a visit to the Eats Rosyth Centenary Orchard in Rosyth, Fife, ahead of the party conference.

Patrick Harvie pledges 'solid proposition' for council tax replacement by 2026

The planned dashcam portal is designed to make it easier for people to submit footage of incidents

Patrick Harvie: Police Scotland should be ‘red faced’ over dashcam scheme delay

Lee Craigie, second left, visiting Forth Environment Link's Bike Buddies training scheme. (Photo by Forth Environment Link)

Cycling and walking funding at record levels so why a crisis? – Alastair Dalton

Exclusive Patrick Harvie criticised for cycling projects ‘drowning in bureaucracy’

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn appeared on Debate Night, hosted by The Scotsman's Stephen Jardine, last week (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Stephen Flynn 'patronising and disrespectful' to questioner

How Scotland's minister for tenants’ rights is driving up rents Murdo Fraser

Yousaf must learn from Sunak about unachievable climate plans John McLellan

"No Mr Harvie, it is not time to break the law"

Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party Patrick Harvie at the 2023 Scottish Green Party Spring Conference at the Golden Jubilee Conference Centre in Clydebank.

Patrick Harvie says he 'will never condemn' climate activists who break the law

Exclusive Harvie says heat pump critics acting on behalf of natural gas vested interests

The Queen's coffin is taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Image: Scott Louden/The Scotsman.

Scottish Greens slammed for snubbing tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II

Police sprang into action when a man shouted a hateful term at Scottish Green party co-leader Patrick Harvie (Picture: Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: One rule for politician, another for so-called TERFs

Sometimes the law really is an ass Susan Dalgety

Yousaf is stuck between a very hard rock and an uncomfortable place John McLellan

Patrick Harvie was unwise to attack his political allies, believes reader (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: Harvie fails to impress on Green delivery in interview

Humza Yousaf hugs Kate Forbes in the main chamber during the vote for the new First Minister at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

'We're not worried about a Kate Forbes coup', asserts key Humza Yousaf ally

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

Lorna Slater defends her party after being criticised by Kate Forbes

Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and successor Humza Yousaf are beyond a joke, reckons reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government's antics are beyond satire

Kate Forbes. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Kate Forbes hits out at 'urban-centric environmentalists'

Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie speaking at the Scottish Green Party conference at the University of Stirling. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Scottish Greens confirm candidate to stand in Rutherglen by-election

Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie on the campaign trail for the Green party at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow for the Scottish Parliamentary election in 2021.

Analysis: Patrick Harvie is right, climate change is a generational issue

Scottish Greens Party co convener, Patrick Harvie, poses for a picture as he departs a polling station at Notre Damme Primary School in Glasgow in 2021. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Patrick Harvie: 'Being in power is exactly where the Scottish Greens need to be'

Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie at Bute House, Edinburgh, after the finalisation of an agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens to share power in Scotland

Fergus Ewing and Robin Harper are old men whose time has passed - Patrick Harvie

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