Today is the UN International Day of Forests, a chance to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests right across the world; from the Amazon to Aberdeen, Borneo to the Borders.
To use a grim but apt metaphor, the news that 2022 will be the UK’s warmest year on record is another dead canary in the coal mine warning us about the dangers of climate change.
Current crises such as the rising cost of living, fears over energy security and the Covid-19 pandemic should “increase, not diminish” determination to deliver on what the world agreed in Glasgow, according to COP26 president Alok Sharma.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has declared she does not think the Cambo oil field should be given the green light as she revealed the COP26 summit has left her with a “renewed sense of responsibility to go further and faster” in tackling climate change.
With climate change inevitably becoming our main focus in the coming weeks, there is much talk of natural capital, ‘green finance’ and ‘green lairds’ in Scotland’s land market.
