2025
Wednesday 10 December 2025
What should a just transition for fossil fuel workers look like?
12.30 – 1.30pm
Online – register here
Speakers:
- John Boland, North East of Scotland Organiser, Unite the Union
- Laurie Macfarlane, Future Economy Scotland
- Chris Hamilton, Unite convenor, PetroIneos, Grangemouth
- Catrina Randall, Just Transition Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Scotland
- Francis Stuart, Scottish Trade Union Congress
Instead of real progress on just transition, so far in Scotland we have had just empty words from government, not backed up by results. Redundancies in fossil fuel sectors have not been met with the creation of clear pathways into new jobs in renewable energy.
We will hear about the frustration rising among workers and communities most affected and the outlines of what a just transition should feel like for the workforce will be presented.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1972416037464
Saturday 18 October 2025
9.30am to 5.30pm at the Augustine Church on George 4th Bridge, Edinburgh.
Book your free place here
Sponsor the conference/make a donation here
Sponsors to date are: UNITE Scottish Construction branch SC/164/404, Edinburgh Climate Coalition, Edinburgh Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, East Ayrshire TUC, Scottish Trade Union Peace Network, Edinburgh TUC
Go to the Conference Page for more information
Saturday 15 November
Thursday 18 September
| Thursday 18 September – organised by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, with RSPB Scotland, Scottish Wildlife Trust, WWF, Oxfam and many others playing a role. |
Outline of the day:
- 10:30am – Mass Lobby Training (Dynamic Earth)
- 11:30am – Participants Choose: Watch FMQs / Visit stalls / Lunch or coffee
- 12:30pm – Group photo outside Parliament
- 12:45 – proceed from Parliament to Dynamic Earth
- 1:00–2:00pm – The Mass Lobby (main event)
- 2:00–4:00pm – Participants choose:
Guided walk / Reflection space /
Thursday 11 September
Open meeting at 7.30pm for anyone interested in helping with or shaping the 18 October conference – use the contact form to get in touch and we’ll provide more details and access to a link to join the meeting online
Saturday 6 September
STOP ROSEBANK DAY OF ACTION – IT’S FINALLY HERE!
Saturday 6 September, 12 noon at Queen Elizabeth House, 1 Sibbald Walk, Edinburgh (the UK Government building)
22 – 29 July
Climate Camp Scotland 2025
Climate Camp Scotland 2025 is taking place between the 22nd and 29th of July near Glasgow!
This year our camp’s focus is on dismantling fossil fascism. We know that right wing authoritarian politics is on the rise around the world and that fossil fuels are funding this. We hope to expose the links between the industry and right wing politics.
We know that the far right poses an existential threat to our communities, whether it is the backing of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the attacks on trans rights and migrants, increased police surveillance, or the rolling back of benefits whilst increasing spending on defence. Climate breakdown will not end if we are led down this dark political route.
Why you should join Climate Camp Scotland?
· 7 days of workshops, discussions and training to prepare ourselves for action in our communities.
· Connection with activists from across Scotland and the UK looking for pathways into action.
· Support for affinity group action planning during camp for a weekend of coordinated action after camp.
· A permissive site which will limit the powers police have to interfere with the week.
Go to https://climatecamp.scot for more information
Tuesday 15 July 4pm and Thursday 17 July 7pm
Scot.E3 Conference 2025
Scot.E3 has a provisional booking on all the rooms at the Augustine Church in Edinburgh for Saturday 18thOctober. We also have sponsorship and financial support from the West of Scotland Unite Construction Branch.
You are invited to an open discussion on the possible shape and content and the conference – what should be the themes? – who should be invited to contribute? With a main hall and smaller rooms, we can hold parallel sessions and workshops. We’re also looking for volunteers to help organise the event.
To maximise engagement there are two planning sessions (you only need to attend one!)
Tuesday 15th July at 4pm (max one hour)
Thursday 17th July at 7pm (max one hour)
The Zoom link for both sessions is http://bit.ly/4kAFHFH
Hoping to see you at one or other of the sessions
Saturday 28 June: Midday – 7pm
Edinburgh Climate Festival
At the Meadows – please come along and join us on the Scot.E3 stall
Monday 2 June – 6.30pm
GKN Florence Solidarity event
GKN union rep DARIO SALVETTI is coming to London on Monday June 2 to relaunch the popular shareholders campaign for the occupied car factory in Florence.
The meeting (including a 30 minute Reel News film of the story so far) will follow the Finsbury Park RMT meeting on that day at The Water Rats in Kings Cross; 328 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8BZ.
The meeting – organised by RMT, London Transport region, UK GKN Solidarity Network, Reel News and the Climate Justice Coalition, starts at 6:30pm and will be a hybrid meeting so that people across the UK can join (and beyond – everyone welcome!); if you can’t get to London you can register here:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Sunday 4 May – 11am
Glasgow May Day march and rally
Saturday 3 May – Midday
Build a climate bloc on the Edinburgh May Day march. The rally at the march is in the main hall at the Pleasance – Clara Paillard from Tipping Point and other climate campaigns is one of the speakers. There will be a ScotE3 stall at the rally.
Monday 17 March – 7pm
Tuesday 11 March – 7pm
All in: a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse
Online launch event for the new book by members of the Portuguese ecosocialist activist group Climaximo. For more about the book go to https://all-in.now Hear from the authors – get involved in the discussion. Register to get a Zoom link at https://tinyurl.com/allin11mar
Friday 21 February – 9.30am
Peoples Rally for Public Control – Better Buses for Strathclyde
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, 131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5JF
Monday 27 January – 9am
Rally outside Falkirk Sheriff Court Main St, Camelon, Falkirk FK1 4AR
Solidarity with the This is Rigged Protestors arrested at Grangemouth while campaigning for the jobs of workers at the oil refinery.
2024
Thursday 5th December 7.30pm
Organise by Edinburgh Climate Coalition
The Factory Occupation for Jobs and Climate in Florence – Solidarity in Scotland (online)
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/eccgkn
Thursday 28th November 10am
Tuesday 17th September
You can also join the event online. Register to get a joining link sent to your email address.
This July, workers at the GKN automotive engineering plant in Florence, Italy passed an incredible three years in occupation. What started as a standard industrial dispute to save jobs transformed into a visionary rank and file worker led movement for just transition, with a plan to move from producing parts for luxury cars, to solar panels and cargo bikes.After the film we’ll discuss how to support GKN, including building a rank and file workers delegation to their October assembly.
Edinburgh Climate Coalition
BE PART OF SNP CONFERENCE STUNT
Climate activists, including John Swinney’s former schoolteacher, will stage a photo stunt outside the SNP conference venue this Friday 30 August.
The teacher will don a black gown and cap and have a large blackboard with lines written on it urging the First Minister “I must not forget about the climate. I must not forget about the climate. I must not forget about the climate…”
Activists will be handing out flyers and speaking to delegates as they enter the conference. A press release and photos will be sent out and we hope to get some attention.
PLEASE COME ALONG AND HELP MAKE IT A SUCCESS.
Where: Outside SNP Conference venue, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, EH3 8EE
When: Friday 30th August 9-10am
From the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign
On Weds 28 August, 6:30pm we are holding a Public Meeting at Unite offices in Glasgow to discuss the next steps for the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign:
Taking our buses back into public control: What’s next for the campaign?
Wednesday 28 August 2024, 6:30-8pm
Unite Scotland, 145/165 West Regent St, G2 4RZ
Register at: takingbusesback.eventbrite.com
Edinburgh City Chambers 10am Tuesday 27th August. (Meet outside Cafe Nero from 9:30)
SUPPORT LOCHEND RESIDENTS DEMANDING FAIR RETROFITS: PROTEST AT EDINBURGH CITY CHAMBERS – organised by Living Rent
Keep Grangemouth Working March & Rally Saturday, 3 August at 11am | Grangemouth Stadium
| The fate of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery and the wider complex is a critical test for delivering a just transition. The workers at the site have shared their plan for the future, the decision makers can not abandon them and the people of Grangemouth. Unite the Union are calling all workers, community members and fellow trade unionists to march on Saturday 3rd August. Muster: 11am at Grangemouth Stadium FK3 0BS March off: 11.30am Finish & Rally: 1pm at Zetland Park Support the demands of: extend, invest and transition! |
10 – 15 July 2024
Climate Camp Scotland is back in Aberdeen – visit the Climate Camp website to register and for more details
Saturday 29th June, midday – 7pm: Edinburgh Climate Festival
ScotE3 will be contributing to the Edinburgh Climate Coalition stall
Tuesday 19th December 3pm
Online meeting organised by our friends in the Portuguese group Climaximo – invitation follows:
In Climáximo, our last round of reflections resulted in a complete reformatting of our framing and strategy. This is part of a movement learning process where we consulted tens of groups all around the world.
We are now ready to admit publicly what many groups feel for a long time: the governments and the corporations declared war against the people and the planet; their weapon of destruction is the climate crisis; and therefore we live in a state of war (or, mostly, in denial of it). This means we need to live, organize and strategize in a state of war; which breaks our own business-as-usual as well as puts the responsibility on us to break the business-as-usual of the capitalist system.
The essential part of our website is translated into English. Have a look, here: www.climaximo.pt
We think that a substantial part of our new model is in fact replicable in other countries or by other groups.
On December 19th, Tuesday, at UTC=GMT=15:00 and CET=16:00 , we are offering an online session to present our theory of change and the accompanying politics, strategy, tactics, narrative and organization.
Register here to get the the Big Blue Button link by email: https://cryptpad.disroot.org/form/#/2/form/view/ze2KDLO3cl3m4qGSZj7UxGLnxaGtJkYWVhQN0quxsyI/
Friday 15th December 9am to 10am
Demonstration: Take Strathclyde’s buses back into public control
SPT Offices, 131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
From Get Glasgow Moving: Our regional transport authority – SPT – is currently assessing whether to use its new powers to take Strathclyde’s bus network back into public control. The Board will have made their decision by March 2024. We need to do everything we can before then to ensure they act in the public interest, stand up to the private bus companies and seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to #TakeBackOurBuses. Sign the petition: betterbuses.uk/strathclyde
Monday 11th December 7pm
Can Capitalism fix the climate crisis??
As yet another COP draws to a close and the world stands perilously close to going beyond the 1.5 degree increase in global temperatures we are holding a discussion on what system change needs to look like. Can the current system be radically reformed or do we need to get rid of it altogether. The point of the meeting is not of fall out over whether the answer to the question posed in the title is yes or no but to share ideas, perspectives and strategies. There will be no ‘speaker’ – the meeting will be structured so that everyone can have their say – and will aim to maximise discussion. Register for a Zoom link here.
Saturday 9th December 12.30pm
Tuesday 28th November 2023, 6.30pm
ScotE3 open meeting – via Zoom join via this registration link
Thursday 9 November 2023, 7.30pm
‘Everything Must Change’ at Aberdeen TUC, John Londragon House, 22A Adelphi, AB11 5BL
FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2023, 9:30AM
Public rally organised by Get Glasgow Moving as part of the Better Buses campaign
SPT Head office, 131 St Vincent St, Glasgow G2 5JF
See blog for more information
Friday September 15th at 11am
Organised by Fridays for Future Scotland
Friday September 15th at 7pm
The Edinburgh Premiere of the REELNews film ‘Everything Must Change’
Cost of living, climate change, food, housing, land – deeply interlinked multiple crises with one solution: a just transition away from a free market extractive system to a renewable energy system based on peoples needs. Featuring numerous inspiring movements (Indian farmers, Grenfell, Landworkers’ Alliance, Construction Rank and File and many more) and followed by a discussion with trade unionists and activists in food, housing, environment and land; how do we build the mass movement to change everything ourselves?
At the Studio, Augustine United Church, George 4th Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL
Admission free but it would very helpful for planning if you could reserve a place on Eventbrite. The film is about an hour long – it will be followed by discussion.
We strongly encourage you to bring and wear a mask – Covid levels are high and rising and we want to do everything we can to keep people safe and healthy.
Saturday 16th September: 11:00am, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL.
Family friendly march planned via UK government building and Scottish Parliament
SEPTEMBER 16 is the date when Edinburgh will join Global protests to “End Fossil Fuels”. This could not be timelier given the UK government’s recent decision to grant licences for 100 new oil fields in the North Sea committing us to decades of polluting emissions. You can read an analysis of this HERE
The UK Government announced plans to licence 100 new oil fields in the North Sea committing us to decades of polluting emissions. The Scottish Government is yet to speak out against Rosebank, the huge North Sea oil field.
We are in a cycle of summertime droughts and wildfires, and winters in which people cannot afford heating. Fossil fuels are the biggest contributor to climate chaos. More oil and gas sold on international markets will not benefit us, what would save us money is a mass roll out of home insulation and investment in cheaper green energy such as wind farms.
In September as world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will come together to demand an urgent and ambitious transition away from fossil fuels.
Some of us from ScotE3 are travelling to Amsterdam to participate in the conference – if you are interested in going but would like to link up email us at triple.e.scot@gmail.com
Registration is open for the 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference! You can register here. The conference will happen in Het Dokhuis in Amsterdam! Program is coming out soon.
You can join in this process and in taking part in both building and participating in the conference. You can find more information below and on the Global Climate Jobs website.
PROGRAM
The conference’s program is being built to answer three fundamental questions:
- What does a political program compatible with climate science and driven towards social justice looks like?
- How will we organize to win?
- How can we gain broad support for our political proposal?
We want to move from policy to action and think that these three questions are fundamental in setting the foundations for a mass movement to fight climate change.
GET INVOLVED
Join our mailing list so you can stay updated. You can do that with a few simple clicks.
You can also help by volunteering at the conference. Learn more on the website.
5th – 10th December Earth Social Conference – Islamabad
A message from one of the organisers
On the August 23rd and 27th, at 3PM UTC, we will have online public sessions about the Earth Social Conference. We would love to see you all there!
Aren’t you scared by the number of times that temperature records were shattered in July? I am. Moreover, I’m angry. Let’s be honest, we are on a highway to climate hell and the global elites have their feet firmly on the accelerator.
We need to build the collective force to pull the emergency break.
Why? Because it is our responsibility to build a safe and just alternative to the ongoing sh*t show.
How? By forging a new system that restores harmony with nature and among human beings.
Who? We. Me and you. We will change their system, which sees everyone and everything as commodities, separate from each other. What to do now? Boycott COP and join the Earth Social Conference
Do you want to know more? Are you skeptical? Do you have doubts or concerns? Are you excited and want to be part of it?
Then come to the online session “COP is Broken, Hit ESCape” on 23th August at 3PM UTC and again on 27th August at 3PM UTC.
Enroll to receive the link: https://framaforms.org/earth-social-conference-cop-is-broken-hit-escape-public-session-1690931909.
Employment, Energy and Environment 