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Planting trees can be a good thing but they need to be the right trees in the right places (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Columnists COP27's nature-based solutions are not as nice as they sound – Dr Richard Dixon

Despite climate change, the global oil and gas industry has big plans for expansion (Picture: Katja Buchholz/Getty Images)

Columnists Big Oil is working to stop COP27 interfering with $1 trillion expansion plans

Columnists World must help the most climate-vulnerable people on planet – Dr Richard Dixon

Environment Rishi Sunak's attitude to COP27 doesn't inspire confidence - Richard Dixon

Columnists A creative response to climate change creates a deep understanding

Columnists Why management of shooting estates must change radically – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Oil and gas industry subsidies of more than £10 billion a year must end

Columnists World just missed a deadline for more action on climate change agreed at COP26

Columnists Why progress towards net-zero emissions is painfully slow – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Shipping's lack of action on carbon emissions will lead to a global crisis

Letters Readers' letters:  Truss’s voodoo economics will not work

Columnists Dear Liz Truss, fracking is a pointless gamble – Dr Richard Dixon

Environment Energy scenarios almost point the way - but not quite

Columnists Beaches can be swimming in sewage without this showing up in official results

Columnists Building nuclear power stations as cost-of-living crisis grows is a bad joke

Columnists Why saving water even when it's not scarce is a good idea – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Brexit fundamentalism threatens swathe of environmental gains

Columnists Hard Brexit is putting people at risk from toxic chemicals – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Scotland needs to focus on green electricity, not hydrogen – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Scotland consumes about twice as much as we need for a good life – Richard Dixon

Columnists If Scotland is to be net-zero by 2045, how can it allow new gas power plants?

Environment Car ban footprint: Should Scotland follow Bermuda's lead to save the planet?

Columnists Scotland's carbon emissions in lockdown worked out at 7.3 tonnes per person

Letters Readers' letters: Rejecting nuclear power is a form of national self-harm

Columnists Why nuclear should have no place in our energy future – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Scotland needs to drive harder towards clean air goals - Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Countries can do as they please without climate change targets set in law

Columnists Thirty years on from Rio Earth Summit, did it actually achieve anything?

National ‘Lessons’ to be learned as Glasgow summit proves to be most polluting COP ever

Columnists An economy that needs almost no new materials? It can be done – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists How Scotland failed to heed warnings about burning its waste – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists How Scotland can rebuild its steel industry and cut carbon emissions

Columnists When voting in the council elections, please think about climate change

Columnists The effective way to tackle climate change that governments don't talk about

Columnists Africa's floods and droughts are just a taste of coming storm – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Scottish and UK governments are on collision course over nuclear energy and oil

Columnists Trickery and technology won't solve climate change crisis - Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Despite 30 years of progress, world is still heading towards climate disaster

Columnists Utterly astonishing temperatures sound yet another climate warning

Columnists Ukraine war does not mean we should produce more oil and gas – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Science shows we're running out of time on climate change – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists UK Government still thinks it's business as usual for oil and gas –Richard Dixon

Columnists Why it's time for Scotland to stop burning its waste – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Here's the long-term answer to soaring energy bills – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Post-Brexit rules threaten environmental standards in Scotland – Richard Dixon

Columnists How even cushioned trainers have made global warming worse – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Why ‘small modular’ nuclear reactors are a bad idea – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Why it's the worst time to abandon green energy – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists We are still not taking climate change seriously enough – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Climate advisers take new tough line with Scottish ministers – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Oil industry has shown it's unfit to lead energy transition – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Cambo oil field decisions not the only bad news for Big Oil – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists SNP budget is first real test of its COP26 climate rhetoric – Dr Richard Dixon

Columnists Scotland must not allow new gas-fired power station – Dr Richard Dixon

Letters Readers' letters: Sturgeon doesn’t get to decide if she’s staying

Columnists Scotland's catch up plan on climate change should be torn up - Dr Richard Dixon

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