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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The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) was a non-departmental public body responsible for advising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh...
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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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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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2021. Climate change portal Energy policy of Scotland Sustainable development in Scotland Climate change in the United Kingdom David Reay, a climate change...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Scotland's plan to make transport more sustainable". Holyrood Magazine. Archived from the original on 23 April 2025. Retrieved 4 May 2025. "Scotland misses...
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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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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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Community Development Alliance Scotland (CDAS) is a network of organisations that are concerned with community development in Scotland. CDAS is a member...
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Celtic Renewables (category 2012 establishments in Scotland)
biorefinery at Caledon Green, in Grangemouth, Scotland in 2020 and completed building in November 2021, there are now plans for a second in Speyside. Celtic Renewables...
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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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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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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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Office for Nuclear Regulation (category Official website not in Wikidata)
systems for nuclear weapon accidents at HMNB Clyde and RNAD Coulport, in Argyll, Scotland. Since about 2013 the ONR has given the two major Atomic Weapons...
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February 2018). "Hywind Scotland, World's First Floating Wind Farm, Performing Better Than Expected". CleanTechnica. Sustainable Enterprises Media, Inc...
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Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme (category Hydroelectric power stations in Scotland)
situated between Loch Sloy and Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. It is also within the Arrochar Alps. Loch Sloy is a relatively small...
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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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to strengthen Scotland's economic competitiveness through influencing government to create sustainable economic prosperity for Scotland. SCDI had circa...
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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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Shetland Gas Plant (category 2016 establishments in Scotland)
The Shetland Gas Plant is a natural-gas processing plant in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Shetland Gas Plant is the collection and gas processing...
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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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of power stations in Scotland includes current and former electricity-generating power stations in Scotland, sorted by type. Scotland is a net exporter...
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executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government with the role to "help build a prosperous, sustainable and inclusive economy across the Highlands...
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