Snp manifesto 2021: what we’re doing for the environment — scottish national party

TACKLE THE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS AND INVEST IN NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS We will invest an additional £500 million in our natural economy to help tackle the biodiversity crisis. We will publish a

new biodiversity strategy within 12 months of the Biodiversity COP, and remain committed to protecting at least 30% of Scotland’s land by 2030. We want to go further still and will review

our current targets when we publish our new strategy. Restoration of degraded peatland is a vital nature based solution to protecting Scotland’s biodiversity and ending our contribution to

climate change, as well as creating opportunities for green jobs and skills. We are committed to a ten year investment of more than £250 million to support the restoration of 250,000

hectares of Scottish peatland by 2030. We will increase our targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025.