Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan 2022-27 - Other - Page 51
A14. Green investment
Private green investment has the potential to deliver positive outcomes for the National Park if it works for the
people of the Cairngorms as well as investors and landowners. There is potential to attract significant funding
to support employment and generate funding for communities from the assets that surround them.
We need to ensure that there is a clear framework for this investment, and we also need to ensure that
funding does not just go to areas of historically degraded land, but also funds the activities required to
keep land in good ecological health. This investment has the potential to help deliver many of the objectives
outlined in this plan.
We believe that the purchase of land for green investment must deliver long-term benefits and be in the
public interest. Benefits must be shared between the owner and local communities. Management of any land
within the National Park should not focus on any one objective to the exclusion of others (eg carbon, sport or
renaturalisation); it should seek to integrate multiple objectives.
OBJECTIVE
Use private green investment in the National Park to fund nature’s
recovery and share the benefits between communities, landowners,
workers and wider society.
TARGET
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The Cairngorms National Park attracts an increasing amount of
green finance per annum for projects that deliver multiple benefits
(carbon, biodiversity, flood mitigation, community).
ACTIONS
BY 2027
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Trial a green finance project for peatland restoration in the
National Park.
•
Explore green finance opportunities at a landscape scale and for
a wider range of benefits, including local community benefit.
•
Identify a pipeline of projects within the National Park over
the next five years.
•
Identify opportunities to strengthen the role of communities and
public authorities in land purchase decisions in the National Park
through the next Land Reform Bill.
•
PARTNERS
(alongside the
Park Authority)
Heritage Horizons: Cairngorms 2030 programme (see page 12).
NatureScot, Scottish Land Commission, environmental NGOs, Scottish
Land and Estates, National Parks Partnership
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