Scotland's Climate Assembly - process, impact and assembly member experience: research report

Draft Environment Strategy

The Environment Strategy sets out a holistic framework for delivering Scotland’s role in tackling the global crises of nature loss, climate change and pollution. It brings together our existing policy response to tackling these crises and builds on these by outlining new priorities and proposals.

What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?

Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between

Reforming the products and processes of the IPCC to enhance its relevance

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses the scientific knowledge on climate change at five to seven year intervals. Exponential growth of the scientific literature has increased the workload for participants and the length of assessment reports. This paper proposes changes to the IPCC’s products and processes to enable it to better meet the needs of its audiences while reducing the growing burden imposed on authors and other participants.

Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation

Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.

Offering experience, intelligence, and wisdom for climate action

A Necessary Response: The Climate Action Handbook for Urbanists is an impassioned and technically useful guide to taking action at the community level.

Environment strategy: transformative changes for sustainability

This is an independent report by Professor Valerie Nelson on behalf of the Scottish Government to inform the development of the forthcoming Scottish Government Environment Strategy.

Soil Assembly

Soil Assembly brings together diverse communities working across ecology, culture, agriculture, research, and collective practice. We invite practitioners, learners, and communities to contribute to a growing network rooted in living soil, regenerative thinking, and shared ecological futures.

Tackling the Nature Emergency - strategic framework for biodiversity: consultation

A consultation on Scotland’s Strategic Framework for Biodiversity, including the first 5-year Delivery Plan for the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, and elements of the proposed Natural Environment Bill.

Atmospheric Group Moderation and Community Management

Wed, Jul 8, 7:00 PM UTC This is a meeting for the Atmospheric Group WG, specifically to chat about the needs for moderation and community management.

A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications

Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd academic

Home - ClimateAction.Tech

The climate crisis is happening all around us. As tech workers, we can use our skills to take and accelerate climate action.