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CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at Scotland’s climate-wrecking roads programme, which is due to double in size despite the SNP’s climate emergency pledge.
Transform Scotland’s Roads to Ruin study, released today, found ministers intended to nearly double their spending on new roads over the next decade.
The group said the government must call for road-building to stop, as transport was the largest source of emissions and there was no progress in reducing these for 30 years.
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
