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Motion · S6M-01584 · 6 Oct 2021

Santander UK Partners with National Parks UK

Lodged by Alexander Burnett (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) Standard Motion 18 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes Santander UK’s announcement that it has joined National Parks UK in becoming a founding partner of the Net Zero With Nature strategy in the Cairngorms National Park; understands that Santander aims to be net zero by 2050 and, through this partnership, will look to use the natural environment to capture and lock in carbon by funding a new project involving the restoration of 220 hectares of damaged peatland in the Cairngorms National Park, which has the potential to capture more than 16,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions over its first five years; acknowledges that the UK’s national parks contain almost a quarter of the UK’s peatland, with ecologists estimating that restoring degraded peat could mitigate nearly 5% of the UK’s entire annual emissions; understands, however, that these peatlands are mostly degraded, with just one fifth remaining in a near-natural state, and believes that this project will support the UK’s net zero target, helping to achieve the Climate Change Committee’s target of restoring 79% of the UK’s peatlands by 2050, as well as the aim set out in the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan to be net zero by 2045.

Supporters (18)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.