2025 started with a big victory as Rosebank oil field approval was declared unlawful in court. This gave us a huge opportunity to keep winning the argument about new oil being bad for bills, terrible for the climate and undermining the energy transition. (🧵 on our year fighting fossil fuels)

2025 has been a massive year for fossil fuel activism in Scotland. At the start of the year, we took action to highlight fossil fuel industry greenwashing around the con of carbon capture, and teamed up with fuel poverty activists on the day energy bills went up again.

2025 saw a major legal victory for the #StopRosebank campaign & a landmark decision to ban new oil drilling. But many politicians have been captured by fossil fuel lobbyists – demanding we forget about climate breakdown & focus instead on increasing oil company profits foe.scot/breakthrough...

📢We're hiring! Could you be our new Transport Campaigner? This role will help win better buses for our communities build power in our movement for a better transport system. 🚌 Find out more & apply via: foe.scot/jobs

Fantastic campaigning means the Peterhead gas burning power station still hasn't been approved by Scottish Ministers. With more evidence of its climate harm revealed & the Acorn carbon capture project falling apart, this entire scheme looks like a worse idea every day. foe.scot/continuing-t...

This year, affected workers & communities made it clear that they are unwilling to put up with an unjust energy transition. This has created powerful campaigning and action in some places, but there has also been an increasingly polarised debate over the future of the oil and gas industry. 🧵

Freya from our team has been looking back at a very busy year in activism – from sub-vertising and cycling pilgrimages, to shareholder actions and good old-fashioned marching, 2025 has been bursting with action. foe.scot/resilient-st...

Our team in the north east of Scotland had another great year of community organising. We found new and exciting ways to get the word out – with creative projects and attending prominent events.

The biggest backer of the Acorn carbon capture project is pulling out. It is clear that this technology cannot be relied on. Scottish Ministers must now reject plans for a new gas burning power station at Peterhead once and for all. www.thenational.scot/news/2569685...

Tell the Scottish Government to make big businesses act responsibly 🗣️ Your voice is needed to pressure our leaders to end the waste and environmental harm caused by our economy. We’ve drafted an email that you can send or edit:

International human rights experts this month told the Scottish Government how it can reduce the harms of damaging business supply chains. In this clip, expert Charles B. Chilufya from Kenya details how the draft circular economy strategy could be improved to ensure supply chains cause less harm.

The closures at Grangemouth & Mossmorran have exposed the lack of transition planning by both Governments. Leaving workers at the hands of uncaring corporations & the market is deeply unjust. Climate groups stood in solidarity with unions to demand real support 👇 foe.scot/standing-wit...

Do you want to help win a publicly-owned bus network that’s free for everyone? 🚏 We’re recruiting a transport campaigner to join our team. You’ll be an organiser, a great communicator and have a strong campaigning background. Read the job description and apply by 12 January

2025 saw the fight for a circular economy in Scotland go global. We learnt how our supply chains are impacting on indigenous people in South America, fought for a international plastic treaty, and supported communities in Scotland to campaign for a better future. foe.scot/a-year-fight...

Our organisers in the North East had a fantastic year. They launched a radio show & film club, stood in solidarity with the people of Palestine and got the word out to communities across the region. foe.scot/community-or...

2025 marked a year of movement building, actions and demonstrations – we spoke out against big polluters and politicians that want to slow down climate action. 📢 Here are just a few of our highlights 🧵

📢We're hiring! Could you be our new Transport Campaigner? This role will help win better buses for our communities and build power in our movement for a better transport system. 🚌 Applications close 12 January. Check out the job description and skills we are looking for👇 foe.scot/jobs/

Scottish Ministers' huge climate gamble with carbon capture is delusional. 🤯 Ministers are betting that this dodgy tech will cut equivalent of 1/3 of *all Scottish emissions* by 2040. But right now there is no plant, no planning application & now the main developer is quitting.

This decision is a huge embarrassment to both the Scottish and UK Governments. The Acorn carbon capture project's main backer is pulling out of the scheme. Politicians have promised over £280million of (supposedly scarce) public money to a technology with a long history of failure.

This decision is a huge embarrassment to both the Scottish and UK Governments. The Acorn carbon capture project's main backer is pulling out of the scheme. Politicians have promised over £280million of (supposedly scarce) public money to a technology with a long history of failure.

Major fossil fuel players in the #ICMForum stand to gain €Bns from @EU_ subsidies for #CCS. Equinor (who is behind the new Peterhead power station) is tied to 14 projects receiving €2.7B 🛢️ Shell to 12 projects receiving around €5B 🔥 Public money propping up private polluters.

Thanks to those that joined us in Stirling last week for the screening of Power Station! 🎥 It was great to be joined by Director, Hilary Powell, for an online Q&A.

Tell the Scottish Government to make big businesses act responsibly 🗣️ Your voice is needed to pressure our leaders to end the waste and environmental harm caused by our economy. We’ve drafted an email that you can send or edit: act.foe.scot/tell_the_sco...

“This Mozambique gas project is a huge carbon timebomb, linked to serious human rights abuses. It should never have been given UK taxpayer-funded support in the first place.” - Asad Rehman, the chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

People power matters 📣 We need people to stand with us now more than ever. Join as a member from £1 per month: act.foe.scot/membership

📣 130+ groups tell EU to scrap its #greenhydrogen import plans that prioritise Europe's flawed energy agenda over the rights, needs, and futures of communities in the Global South. Read more 🧵 1/5 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...

Today saw a landmark announcement from the UK Govt that it will end exploration for new oil & gas fields. 🛢️ People power has forced them to make this happen and it makes clear that we are on the path to ending fossil fuels. ✊

BREAKING🚨 Campaigners were outside Dana Petroleum HQ in Aberdeen today to call out their contract with the Israeli government! We join the International Day of Action against Dana Petroleum & its owner the Korean National Oil Company (KNOC) - in Ulsan, South Korea, in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & London.

“The reality and scale of the crisis means that small steps forward aren’t going to be enough... I won’t sugar-coat it – the consequences will be terrifying if words aren’t turned into action soon.” - Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"I'm from the confluence of the Ganges; our rivers carry the stories of the climate crisis. We need the finance to adapt, build our future, and protect our communities. Not to come and beg in an annual humiliation ritual for what is rightfully ours." Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh #COP30

"The fact that the Scottish Government has still not vocally opposed Rosebank shows it is not treating the climate crisis with the seriousness it deserves." Our activist Jean from Global Justice Dundee quoted in @scotnational.bsky.social 👏🏼 www.thenational.scot/news/2563836...

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a greenwashing lie and lobbyists are using it to delay the inevitable move away from fossil fuels. With more CCS lobbyists at #COP30 than any other single nation, except the host country, Brazil - we need to kick polluters out of climate talks for good.

📣 BREAKING At least 531 lobbyists for groups that advocate for a misguided technology that prolongs #FossilFuel use (aka Carbon Capture & Storage #CCS) have gained access to the #COP30 climate talks. Read: sg.news.yahoo.com/carbon-captu... A 🧵

Power Station film screening this Friday 21st Nov! 🎥 If you're in Stirling, join us for this new film about how we can turn our homes and our streets into renewable power stations. Book your ticket: act.foe.scot/stirling_pow...

Proud to march with @foescot.bsky.social & other march organisers for Glasgow's climate march on Saturday - so many people care about making a fair transition from fossil fuels in Scotland - our leaders must listen Thanks to Global Justice Now supporters who came along! Photos: Gary McHarg

“We are stronger when we connect our issues - and stand together to demand justice.” 🤝 At the weekend we took to the streets in huge numbers to show that people are demanding climate action. A better world is possible – and on days like Saturday – we know that it is coming! #ScotlandsClimateMarch

People joined marches for climate justice around the world including at UN climate talks in Brazil #cop30

Photos of people, placards & performers from #ScotlandsClimateMarch See if you can spot yourself! 📸 Garry McHarg & Gerard Puigmal flic.kr/s/aHBqjCAU8t

A better world is possible – and you showed up in huge numbers to demand it!🔥 We marched, chanted, sang, listened and learned together. We know that we are stronger when we connect our issues and demand justice alongside each other. Onwards! 📸 Garry F McHarg

Today we marched in our thousands to say a better world IS possible! We proved that the energy and enthusiasm to make transformative change happen is there. We know that the challenges we face, from Glasgow to the Amazon to Palestine, are all deeply connected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotland’s Climate March is bringing people together to push for the transformative action we need. People want warm homes, decent buses and green jobs in our communities.

We come together across our movements – from Palestine solidarity, migrant justice, nature protection and for a transition that creates jobs and fights poverty. We are stronger when we connect our issues and demand justice alongside each other. #ScotlandsClimateMarch

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Huge Climate March underway in Glasgow! People coming together across movements and groups to demand a better world! #ScotlandsClimateMarch #COP30

Sharing flyers for #ScotlandsClimateMarch in Shawlands today. Thanks to the local businesses who were happy to post them in their windows! Join the march this coming Saturday at 11am in Glasgow Green. Find out more and get involved at climatemarch.scot

"[COP30] is a useful focal point for the global climate movement to demand better, to demand more" Scotland's Climate March comes to Glasgow this Saturday – we ask organisers like @foescot.bsky.social how sustainable movements are made

Alongside @foescot.bsky.social, @rspbscotland.bsky.social and many more, we’ll be taking part in Scotland’s Climate March in Glasgow tomorrow 📣 A healthy climate is essential for healthy wildlife – and vice versa! So join us at Glasgow Green from 11am and make your voice heard!

Join us this Saturday for Scotland's Climate March! 🌍 📣 Susie Wood of @getglasgowmoving.org will be speaking about the Better Buses campaign at the Rally on Glasgow Green after the March 👇 Please come say hello & collect some of our new leaflets 😀 @foescot.bsky.social #ScotlandsClimateMarch #COP30

Bring your kids (or yourself!) and get creative at #ScotlandsClimateMarch 🎨 The migrant & racial justice bloc, with Parents for Future Scotland, will have arts & craft activities for kids, parents & other adults at the rally. If you don't yet have a sign, come and make one to take on the march!

We're on track for 2.6C warming, plus fossil fuel emissions will rise by 1% this year. Now, more than ever, we need to see urgent, meaningful action from the ongoing UN climate talks in Brazil. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“That's where the real power comes from, when you work with others to create change yourself.” The latest issue of @theskinnymag.bsky.social looks ahead to Scotland's Climate March in Glasgow this Saturday! Read more 👇 www.theskinny.co.uk/intersection...