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Our work on Environment

Posted By: Futures Forum Staff 1 March 2023

  • UPCOMING EVENT: COP28: Code Red for parliaments – what next?

    UPCOMING EVENT: COP28: Code Red for parliaments – what next?

    How are parliaments changing to respond to the climate and biodiversity emergencies? How are they supporting their elected members to deal with the issues..

  • UPCOMING EVENT: COP28: An update from the conference

    UPCOMING EVENT: COP28: An update from the conference

    Malini Mehra, chief executive of GLOBE International, joins parliamentarians in the COP pavilion to provide an update on how conference negotiations are going.

  • Scotland’s Land: One resource, many uses

    Scotland’s Land: One resource, many uses

    This half day conference in October 2023 explored how we could best use our land to to underpin food security, maintain sustainable communities, and meet our climate and biodiversity targets.

  • Tackling 21st Century Inequality

    Tackling 21st Century Inequality

    What can be done to tackle the giants of 21st century poverty? This seminar in August 2023 with the David Hume Institute and Professor Danny Dorling explored whether Scotland is providing some answers.

  • Radical uses for Scotland’s land

    Radical uses for Scotland’s land

    How can Scotland create fair and sustainable communities? This Festival of Politics debate in August 2023 explored the role of and future for our land in Scotland.

  • Economic Transformation: Making a good living?

    Economic Transformation: Making a good living?

    With Scotland facing the challenges of a climate emergency and rising inequality, this seminar in June 2023 explored business purpose and making a good living.

  • Economic Transformation: A Just Transition?

    Economic Transformation: A Just Transition?

    With Scotland facing the challenges of a climate and ecological emergency, rising inequality and an ageing population, this seminar in April 2023 explored the idea of a just transition.

  • Economic Transformation: A Wellbeing Economy?

    Economic Transformation: A Wellbeing Economy?

    With Scotland facing the challenges of a climate and ecological emergency, rising inequality and an ageing population, this seminar in February 2023 explored the idea of a wellbeing economy

  • COP26: Code Red for Parliaments

    COP26: Code Red for Parliaments

    This report uses events at COP26 to identify a pathway for Parliaments in tackling the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

  • Code Red: Parliaments & the Climate and Ecological Emergencies

    Code Red: Parliaments & the Climate and Ecological Emergencies

    This COP26 event asked parliamentarians, advisers, citizens & academics to explore how Parliaments must evolve in the context of a Code Red for humanity.