Sustainable development in Scotland has a number of distinct strands. The idea of sustainable development was used by the Brundtland Commission which...
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and then confirmed in the 2009 Climate Change Delivery Plan. Maf Smith, director of the Sustainable Development Commission in Scotland said "Governments...
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Edinburgh (26 October 2010). Renewable energy in Scotland Sustainable development in Scotland Local Energy Scotland HICEC. (2006) Highlands and Islands Community...
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Pelamis Wave Energy Converter (category Wave farms in Scotland)
motion which is used to generate electricity. Developed by the now defunct Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power (formerly Ocean Power Delivery), the Pelamis...
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encourage sustainable development, some of which would form the basis of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 and Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016...
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Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current...
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technology in Scotland, with 16,648 megawatts (MW) of installed wind power capacity by Q2 2024. This included 9,756 MW from onshore wind in Scotland and 2...
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The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh...
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Pelamis Wave Power (category 1998 in Scotland)
was established in 1998 and had offices and fabrication facilities in Leith Docks, Edinburgh, Scotland. It went into administration in November 2014. The...
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Dounreay (redirect from Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment)
(/ˌduːnˈreɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: Dùnrath) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland...
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Findhorn Ecovillage (category Sustainability in Scotland)
the wind park. Scotland portal Weather portal Renewable energy portal Sustainable development in Scotland Renewable energy in Scotland Centre for Alternative...
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Scottish Power Limited, trading as ScottishPower, is a vertically integrated energy company based in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a subsidiary of Spanish utility...
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Scotland has a network of development officers across Scotland. Government Community And Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES), Scotland.gov.uk "Scotland delivers...
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Siadar Wave Power Station (category 2011 in Scotland)
off the shore of Siadar Bay, in Lewis, Scotland. The £30 million project, was to be built by Wavegen, received Scottish Government approval on 22 January...
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money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, therefore benefiting societies and the environment across time...
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North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–1990) was founded to design, construct and manage hydroelectricity projects in the Highlands of Scotland. It is...
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Scotland has a long history of nuclear research and electricity generation. Work started on the Dounreay reactor in 1955. Four other sites provided electricity...
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Cruachan Power Station (category Hydroelectric power stations in Scotland)
hydroelectric power station in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK. The scheme can provide 440 MW of power and produced 705 GWh in 2009. The turbine hall is located...
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projects across Scotland in the hope that this seed capital will encourage further private investment, to help develop a fairer, more sustainable economy. £2 billion...
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political party in Scotland. The party has 7 MSPs of 129 in the Scottish Parliament, the party holds 35 of the 1226 councillors at Scottish local Government...
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North Sea oil (redirect from Oil in the North Sea)
or oil shale) mined in the Midland Valley of Scotland. Across the sea in Germany, oil was found in the Wietze field near Hanover in 1859, leading to the...
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Chapelcross nuclear power station (category 1959 establishments in Scotland)
undergoing decommissioning. It is located in Annan in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, and was in operation from 1959 to 2004. It was the sister...
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Torness nuclear power station (category Nuclear power stations in Scotland)
miles (50 km) east of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland. It was the last of the United Kingdom's Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors...
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European Marine Energy Centre (category Renewable energy in Scotland)
centre focused on wave and tidal power development, based in the Orkney Islands off the mainland of Scotland. The centre provides developers with the...
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Renewable Energy Development in Scotland, also known as FREDS is a partnership between industry, academia and Government aimed at enabling Scotland to capitalise...
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SSE plc (redirect from Scottish and Southern Energy Group)
SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) is a multinational energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland. It is listed on the London Stock...
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in Scotland - BBC News". BBC News. 24 March 2016. See for example: Scottish Executive (2005) Choosing Our Future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy...
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promoting travel initiatives by more sustainable means of transport. Scottish Power of Glasgow for Sustainable development of Whitelee Windfarm for green energy...
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Storr Lochs Hydro-Electric Scheme (category Hydroelectric power stations in Scotland)
from Scottish and Southern Energy's control centre in Perth. The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board was created by the Hydro-electric Development (Scotland)...
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NatureScot (redirect from Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland)
NatureScot (Scottish Gaelic: NàdarAlba) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government responsible for Scotland’s natural heritage...
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