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National Audit Office
Energy and environment - Mar. 28 2024
wider environmental goals (PDF)

Found: Lessons for government on achieving its net zero and environmental goals


Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023
Document: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023 (PDF)

Found: through contracts for activities such as tree felling, planting and maintenance.30   National Islands


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 27 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) Does the cabinet secretary think that there is scope in the bill for a presumption against planting trees - Speech Link
2: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) Those include agriculture, food and drink production, the environment, forestry, knowledge exchange and - Speech Link
3: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) to be doing nothing to control that use of agricultural land, rendering the rhetoric of “the right tree - Speech Link
4: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) tenant farmers and crofters.The same is true for forestry, where the spivs and speculators are everywhere - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Scottish Fiscal Commission (Report on Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability) - Tue 26 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: None investment that has to go into the restoration of peatland and, in forestry, the types of trees and - Speech Link
2: None Some of that involves changing the use of land to forestry, planting new woodland, improving tree density - Speech Link
3: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) If we take forestry, I think that we have been planting more trees than elsewhere in the UK, but that - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Natural Capital Finance - Tue 26 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: None Let us take the examples of tree planting and peatland restoration. - Speech Link
2: None tree planting must involve the community fundamentally. - Speech Link
3: Macpherson, Ben (SNP - Edinburgh Northern and Leith) I want to set aside forestry and tree planting, as I know that there has been some discussion on that—for - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Progress report)
Marine Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: Wild salmon strategy implementation plan progress report: 2023-2024
Document: Wild Salmon Strategy Implementation Plan Progress Report 2023-2024 (PDF)

Found: out a framework and detailed list of actions to be taken to protect and restore populations.


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, 25 March 2024
UK subordinate legislation: Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Correspondence Mar. 25 2024

Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Letter from the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Submission from Stephen Young, Director of Policy, Scottish Land and Estates, 20 March 2024
Natural capital finance

Correspondence Mar. 20 2024

Inquiry: Natural Capital Finance
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

Found: Natural capital finance Submission from Stephen Young, Director of Policy, Scottish Land and Estates,


Scottish Parliament Written Question
S6W-26187
Wednesday 20th March 2024

Asked by: Callaghan, Stephanie (Scottish National Party - Uddingston and Bellshill)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recently published inquiry into public financial support for tree planting and forestry, launched by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Answered by Gougeon, Mairi - Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands

The report makes a number of useful contributions, which Scottish Forestry is considering. A number of the recommendations made are already in place, including changes to sustainability standards increasing the required proportion of tree species diversity, tougher measures to protect soils during tree planting, and supporting an increase in woodlands by rivers across Scotland.

Public forestry grants are vital and a well-established means used across the UK to stimulate woodland creation, supporting Scottish sector worth over £1bn annually and 25,000 jobs. The Scottish Government is clear that Scotland needs to plant a mixture of both productive as well as native species if we are to tackle climate change, nature loss and a growing demand for timber.


Scottish Government Publication (Minutes)

Mar. 20 2024

Source Page: Convention of the South of Scotland minutes: February 2024
Document: Convention of the South of Scotland minutes: February 2024 (webpage)

Found: We need to make sure our tree breeding makes these trees grows as fast as Sitka.