Climate

Creating climate-resilient living systems, capable of carbon capture and storage, reducing the local impacts of climate change.

Outcomes

  • A more complex landscape and range of species regulating the carbon cycle.
  • Reduced impact of erosion, flooding, drought and wildfires.
  • Improved soil health, air and water quality.
Excavator re-profiling eroded peat hags to help facilitate heather regeneration as part of peatland restoration work on An Lurg, September 2020, Cairngorms
Wildlife on the river system

Priority actions

  • Scoping the potential for restoring native oyster reefs and seagrass meadows.
  • Exploring opportunities for bio-abundance to lock away carbon.