Our Scans · Glasgow · Weekly Summary

• Glasgow is running a survey to collect ideas from citizens, stakeholders, and third parties for its 2024-2027 Action Plan. Open Government Partnership
• On stand B39, Teledyne GFD, which has its UK manufacturing facility just 8 km west of Glasgow in Renfrew, will be shining the spotlight on four key technologies. AZoSensors
• The UK will continue to drive focus on tackling migrant smuggling with the G7 under Canada's presidency in 2025, and at next month's INTERPOL General Assembly in Glasgow. GOV.UK
• The multinational corporation Siemens Healthineers, and MR CoilTech Ltd., of Glasgow, Scotland, will soon be disseminating additional NexGen 7 T scanners to neuroscience imaging centers in coming year. IEEE Pulse
• Places like London, Bradford, Glasgow, Manchester and Bath that have introduced low emission zones are all showing benefits, greater reductions in PM2.5 and NO2 than anticipated. Believ
• McMicking describes government support for hydrogen propulsion in the UK, where ZeroAvia has a base in Gloucestershire and plans to build a facility in Glasgow, as great and encouraging. Runway Girl
• Hundreds of Glasgow pensioners are staring down financial uncertainty after Maiden Life Forsakrings delivered a shock notice: all funeral expense insurance policies under its Family Protection Plan will be terminated at the end of November. Insurance Business
• Cop 33 could be in India, which in the final stages of Cop 26 in Glasgow insisted a phaseout of coal, which had been agreed by all parties, must be weakened to a phasedown. The Guardian
• In 2021, the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use set a global target to end forest loss by 2030, including reaching zero gross deforestation. Edie
• We need to remember that in large metropolitan areas such as London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester there will be complex processes of migration between neighbouring boroughs within the commuting zones. GOV.UK
• The first UN Environment Programme stocktake of methane emissions since the landmark Glasgow pledge backed by over 160 countries found the world is far behind the 30% target set for 2030, on course to deliver just a fourth of promised reductions. Health Policy Watch
• A Methane Summit prior to COP saw countries express renewed commitment to the Global Methane Pledge, reached at COP26 in Glasgow, to reduce methane emissions 30% by 2030 as compared to 2020 levels. Health Policy Watch

Last updated: 25 June 2026