'Climate inaction will increase costs for Glasgow's households'
Efforts to help improve local biodiversity and support the natural environment are more important than ever.
To stop catastrophic climate change, we must take action to give nature the home it requires.
We still need to support our nature reserves across the city.
With high temperatures and the risk of water shortages, we have to protect wildlife habitats and extend nature networks in response to changing climate conditions.
We are facing increasing threats from climate breakdown.
The latest warnings on water scarcity show the urgent need to reduce our carbon emissions.
We have to raise awareness about the current and future impacts of climate change on Scotland's water.
It is important to acknowledge that climate change is a water crisis.
We can feel the impact of changing weather through worsening floods, rising sea levels, wildfires and droughts.
There is a need to reduce our water usage and support the adaptation of our water supply and wastewater services to help tackle the impacts of climate change.
Climate inaction will increase costs for Glasgow's households and the economy unless big polluters are made to pay.
Research by Global Witness has revealed that the costs of climate breakdown in the UK amount to an estimated £3,000 per household over the course of 2025.
The cost of wildfires, flooding, crop losses, and droughts means higher bills for households, such as insurance and everyday essentials, warns Tax Justice UK.
Unless polluters pay through a windfall tax, communities will be worse off and the super-rich will keep getting richer.
The UK Climate Change Committee has published expert advice on what the Scottish Government must do to meet its ambitious 2045 net-zero targets.
This committee is clear that the 2045 target is achievable, but only if the Scottish Government takes decisive and rapid action to reduce emissions from transport, home heating, and land use.
Scottish Greens are also calling for the UK Government to listen to climate experts, take urgent action to fix the broken energy market, and end the artificial high price for clean green electricity, which is cheap to generate but expensive to consume.
This comes following the publication of new monthly figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that inflation has jumped to 3.5 per cent in April, the highest level since February last year.
Independent climate advisers have advised that the UK Government must act urgently to make electricity cheaper, through rebalancing prices to remove policy levies from electricity bills.
We desperately need to fix the broken energy market that is plunging people into poverty all the while keeping our reliance on climate-wrecking fossil fuels.
We're in a climate emergency.
We need significant effort to be made to switch our homes to clean heat, and to protect our city from catastrophic damage.
Delaying climate action actually costs a lot more in the long run.
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