AS Glasgow gears up to host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November 2021, Royal Bank of Scotland is right in the thick of the action, both as a principal partner and a company that has set itself some bold targets, including halving the climate impact of its financing activity by 2030 and making its footprint climate positive by 2025. Susan Fouquier, managing director at Royal Bank of Scotland Business Banking, explains: “Climate change is the greatest challenge facing our planet and we are taking our responsibilities to tackle it very seriously – and that means working collaboratively and being clear about our intentions.”
Walking into ScrapAntics is like entering an Aladdin’s cave of wonderful things.
The scrap store, a social enterprise based on the ground floor of Meadow Mill in West Henderson’s Wynd in Dundee, is run by Sandy Greene, who explains how it came about: “I’m concerned about the environment and am aware we cannot live sustainably if we don’t work as a community and look after each other,” she says.
“For the last 25 years I have worked in schools running interactive environmental arts and crafts workshops, both in and out of doors. When austerity came to town, my friend and colleague Siobhan Morison and I realised schools lacked funding for resources so we set up ScrapAntics in 2016 to help resolve two problems – industrial waste and access to cheap resources,” she continues.