Gina Hanrahan's latest posts

It has seemed like relentless bad news over the past month as the world struggles to cope with the very real impacts of a changing climate. Lives and livelihoods have been destroyed by flooding in South Asia; Hurricane Harvey battered America’s petrochemical heartland in Texas; and Hurricane Irma destroyed 90% of Barbuda’s buildings, caused devastation […]

In Scotland we’ve been rightly proud of the word leading climate legislation unanimously passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2009, but time has moved on and other countries are going even further in order to meet the targets set in the Paris Agreement. An ambitious Climate Change Bill is a great opportunity to create jobs, […]

Last month, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met with the Governor of California – the world’s sixth largest economy – to sign an agreement that strengthens clean energy ties and mutual resolve to deliver strong climate action in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. It was good to be reminded that, in spite of […]

Did you know that 4 in every 10 households in Scotland live in fuel poverty? Or that children all across Scotland are growing up cold, affecting their physical and mental health, their educational attainment and their life chances? This won’t do. We may have chilly weather and lots of old houses, but no one in Scotland […]

WWF Scotland recently hosted a delegation of colleagues from WWF Poland to show them first hand the great work being done on renewables.  Below is an overview of the trip from Tobiasz Adamczewski, Climate and energy expert, WWF Poland. Scotland’s renewables story proves to be an inspiration While working on climate and energy issues in […]

Our new report  ‘Pathways to Power’ shows that Scotland could be powered almost entirely by renewables by 2030. Against an often uncertain landscape for renewables in 2014, it was great to see Scotland continuing to earn its clean energy stripes, keeping pace with other energy progressive nations that have made green growth a pillar of […]

 “Formerly, the future was simply given to us; now it must be achieved.” With these powerful words drawn from Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, philosopher Henry Shue posed a challenge to all of us at the International Climate Justice Conference. The conference – which took place in Edinburgh last Wednesday – was an […]

Scientists and world governments have spoken: climate change is unequivocal, its risks are real and our impact is clearer than ever. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report launched last Friday is quite simply the most authoritative and comprehensive review of climate science available. It’s been prepared by over 800 scientists, cites over […]