Highland Councillors have agreed that the local authority will sign the Edinburgh Declaration to underline its commitment to tackling the climate and ecological emergency it announced in 2019.
Oil giants like BP and Shell propose to spend billions on renewable energy, bolstering Scotland’s efforts to move away from an economy based on fossil fuel.
The presence of the world’s leading natural historian could inspire a generation and lead to Scotland’s discovery of its own Greta Thunberg, the philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter has said.
