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Dr Richard Dixon is an environmental campaigner and consultant

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As wildfires and other symptoms of global warming become an increasing problem, the next international summit on the issue, COP28, will be run by an oil industry executive (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Oil chief's appointment as COP28 president is worrying sign – Dr Richard Dixon

Air pollution targets are set to be reduced because of the damage it causes to health (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Despite good news on air pollution, it's still not clean – Dr Richard Dixon

Oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a previous price slump (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Is Scottish Government set to end oil and gas industry? – Dr Richard Dixon

The Insulate Britain campaign group, seen delivering a letter to 10 Downing Street, has helped to highlight the need to improve home insulation (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

A 'war effort' on boosting home insulation is now vital – Dr Richard Dixon

A man and a youth use a satellite dish to move children across a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in Jaffarabad district and much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

A big step forward for nature in 2022, but fossil fuels remain a problem

Hedgehogs are classed as vulnerable to extinction in Scotland, according to the Mammal Society (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

The world has just taken a big step forward for protection of nature – on paper

A circular economy would see far less waste go into landfills (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP and Greens should be ambitious about circular economy – Dr Richard Dixon

Vaping devices do not have to be disposable, with rechargeable and refillable versions available (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Disposable vapes are causing tidal wave of plastic pollution – Dr Richard Dixon

Planting trees can be a good thing but they need to be the right trees in the right places (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

COP27's nature-based solutions are not as nice as they sound – Dr Richard Dixon

Despite climate change, the global oil and gas industry has big plans for expansion (Picture: Katja Buchholz/Getty Images)

Big Oil is working to stop COP27 interfering with $1 trillion expansion plans

Pastoralists from the Gabra community walk among carcasses of dead sheep and goats in Marsabit county, Kenya, earlier this year after a devastating drought (Picture: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)

World must help the most climate-vulnerable people on planet – Dr Richard Dixon

The management of grouse shooting estates must change because of climate change (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Why management of shooting estates must change radically – Dr Richard Dixon

Oil and gas industry subsidies of more than £10 billion a year must end

Climate-sceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg now runs the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, which is responsible for the UK's action on global warming (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

World just missed a deadline for more action on climate change agreed at COP26

Carbon emissions come with a price and it must be paid (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Why progress towards net-zero emissions is painfully slow – Dr Richard Dixon

Giant container ships transport goods all over the world (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

Shipping's lack of action on carbon emissions will lead to a global crisis

Liz Truss has put fracking back on the political agenda (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Dear Liz Truss, fracking is a pointless gamble – Dr Richard Dixon

Bathing water may not always be as free from sewage as we would like (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Beaches can be swimming in sewage without this showing up in official results

The Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk is set to be joined by Sizewell C (Picture: Fiona Hanson/PA)

Building nuclear power stations as cost-of-living crisis grows is a bad joke

Even the mighty Danube River, seen at Szentendre, Hungary, has been much reduced by drought (Picture: Ferenc Isza/AFP via Getty Images)

Why saving water even when it's not scarce is a good idea – Dr Richard Dixon

Construction work continues on the delayed and over-budget Hinkley Point C nuclear reactors (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Why nuclear should have no place in our energy future – Dr Richard Dixon

Bill Clinton, soon to be elected US President, speaks at a press conference about the ongoing Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 (Picture: Ben Rusnak/AFP via Getty Images)

Thirty years on from Rio Earth Summit, did it actually achieve anything?

Under Renault Group chief executive Luca de Meo, the firm has developed used-car factories to refurbish vehicles on an industrial scale (Picture: Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images)

An economy that needs almost no new materials? It can be done – Dr Richard Dixon

Incinerators cause carbon emissions and consume waste that could have otherwise been recycled (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How Scotland failed to heed warnings about burning its waste – Dr Richard Dixon

Electric arc furnaces melt steel by heating it to more than 1,500 degrees Celsius (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

How Scotland can rebuild its steel industry and cut carbon emissions

Barcelona council has created car-free zones in parts of the city (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images)

When voting in the council elections, please think about climate change

Reducing meat consumption can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming (Picture: Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images)

The effective way to tackle climate change that governments don't talk about

Hundreds of people died after heavy rainfall swept away homes in Durban and in KwaZulu-Natal province (Picture: Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa's floods and droughts are just a taste of coming storm – Dr Richard Dixon

Construction work continues at the over-budget and delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Scottish and UK governments are on collision course over nuclear energy and oil

Climate protestors march in Glasgow during the United Nations' COP26 climate summit in November (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Despite 30 years of progress, world is still heading towards climate disaster

Parts of Eastern Antarctica have seen temperatures far above normal (Picture: Torsten Blackwood/pool/Getty Images)

Utterly astonishing temperatures sound yet another climate warning

Pipes laid near Lubmin, Germany, were meant to transfer Russian gas from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which has been suspended following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Ukraine war does not mean we should produce more oil and gas – Dr Richard Dixon