WE are seeing soaring temperatures and climate chaos across the world.

This month, our planet has had its hottest day on record.

This temperature rise follows reports that the UK experienced the hottest June on record.

Climate scientists are warning that we need to act now. We have to ensure that this is a turning point in efforts to bring about national and international climate action.  

Planning for even more oil and gas exploration would be a climate disaster.

It would make an already unsustainable situation even worse and would pave the way for even greater climate breakdown.   

At nearly 500 million barrels, Rosebank is the biggest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea.

Last year the UK Government announced that it could approve more than 100 new oil and gas exploration licences as part of its latest licensing round.  

There is a proposed expansion of oil and gas drilling and opening up even more of our North Sea to the highest bidder.

Its approach is contributing to a cataclysmic failure in tackling the climate crisis and is putting future generations at risk.  

To ensure we have a liveable future, we must end oil and gas exploration, and drastically cut our dependence on planet-wrecking fossil fuels.

We need to support a generation-defining push for renewables and a fair and just transition that embraces and supports the communities and workers who have relied on the oil and gas industry.  

A just transition is vital to communities around the world.

Those communities, workers and their skills should be right at the heart of building a fairer, greener future. We have the knowledge and technology to build an economy that works for people and planet.

We must embrace the opportunity while we still have the time. The cost of inaction is unthinkable.  

The UK Government is utterly failing to grasp the real and immediate dangers posed by the climate emergency.

There is no time to waste.

With the world burning around us, it is even more urgent that the UK Government delivers on its climate pledge and halts the tax breaks to fossil fuel companies.  

We need to have tax measures and incentives which influence the behaviours of companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The UK Government must fulfil its commitment to tackle the impacts of climate change and invest to ensure that we have an economy that is resilient to extreme weather events.  

Scottish Green councillors are continuing to support efforts to build on existing partnerships, programmes and initiatives across Glasgow in order to tackle climate change.  

We can and must do more on heating buildings, making them efficient, as well as making improvements to sustainable travel.

It is vital that there are resources to deliver an ambitious, net zero transition plan, creating well-paid green jobs, investing in local supply chains, and laying the foundation for a just and prosperous future, in which no one is left behind.

Our focus has to be on actions that deliver investment that recognises the urgency of the climate emergency.