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Reduce transport emissions: deliver climate justice

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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    Please add your voice to the growing number of people across Scotland that are calling for more investment in cycling and for pedestrians.

    Transport accounts for a quarter of Scotland’s climate change emissions. This needs to reduce urgently and decisively if Scotland is to play its fair part in tackling global climate change. 


    We all need to move about, whether that’s popping down to the shops, commuting to work, taking children to school or going on holiday: everyone uses transport in one form or another. 

Enabling more people to walk and cycle is a crucial part of reducing our collective carbon footprint.

    The Scottish Government has the power to transform the way we move around, but at the moment only a tiny fraction (just over 1%) of the total transport budget in Scotland is allocated to cycling and walking.

    http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/campaigns/sccs-autumn2013

    Posted 10 years ago #
  2. neddie
    Member

    Meanwhile:

    Chemicals giant Ineos has asked the Scottish and UK governments for grants and loan guarantees of £150m to build a new gas terminal.

    The firm said its petrochemical site in Grangemouth is "unsustainable" and will close by 2017 without new investment.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-24331698

    UNSUSTAINABLE! - You're not kidding!

    Posted 10 years ago #
  3. chdot
    Admin

    KB calls for more ActiveTravel, but will he fund it??

    Has he got the muscle to push John Swinney's door open?

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11249&replies=3#post-126554

    Posted 10 years ago #
  4. PS
    Member

    @chdot I seem to remember Alex Salmond saying that the door being pushed was already open? Or was that another door?

    Posted 10 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    That was AS's door.

    The money is behind JS's door.

    (Probably in a safe with only one key...)

    Posted 10 years ago #

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