Ferret Underground: Scotland and the Climate Crisis

Hi ,

We have an exciting announcement for our Ferret Underground members.

Next week, The Ferret is launching its first fact-checking series, Scotland and the Climate Crisis.

From Tuesday 18 July, we will be publishing a series of fact-checks, explainers and multimedia content focusing on misinformation around climate change.

This series was suggested by our members, and all the content is informed by what you said and wanted to know about climate change in Scotland.

Hopefully we have answered some of your questions.

An Edinburgh financial giant’s investments in 20 firms indirectly caused nearly five million tonnes of climate pollution in 2022 — significantly more than the amount produced annually at Grangemouth, Scotland’s dirtiest industrial site.

Asset manager, Abrdn – known as Standard Life Aberdeen until 2021 – has stakes in some of the world’s biggest polluters including the oil multinationals Shell and BP, German coal firm, RWE, and global mining companies, Glencore and Rio Tinto.

Abrdn’s investments in the 20 highest polluting companies in its portfolio resulted in the equivalent of 4.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the atmosphere in 2022.