Found: Lessons for government on achieving its net zero and environmental goals
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023Found: through contracts for activities such as tree felling, planting and maintenance.30 National Islands
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
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
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
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: Wild salmon strategy implementation plan progress report: 2023-2024Found: out a framework and detailed list of actions to be taken to protect and restore populations.
Correspondence Mar. 25 2024
Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands CommitteeFound: Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Letter from the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and
Correspondence Mar. 20 2024
Inquiry: Natural Capital FinanceFound: Natural capital finance Submission from Stephen Young, Director of Policy, Scottish Land and Estates,
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.
Mar. 20 2024
Source Page: Convention of the South of Scotland minutes: February 2024Found: We need to make sure our tree breeding makes these trees grows as fast as Sitka.