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Scotland in brief: March 25, 2021

ENVIRONMENT: Campaigners are demanding that the British government ban big polluters from a United Nations climate conference to be held in Glasgow in November.

An open letter, initiated by Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, has been sent to conference president Alok Sharma laying out the steps that the government can take to exclude major corporations. 

The Cabinet Office said that all actors involved in the event, known as COP26, would need to have “strong climate credentials.”

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