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Motion · S6M-14932 · 16 Oct 2024

IndiNature Wins the Iver Salvesen Award for Combatting Climate Change

Lodged by Rachael Hamilton (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) Standard Motion 26 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates IndiNature, based in Jedburgh, on winning the Iver Salvesen Award for Combatting Climate Change at the Scottish Land and Estates Helping It Happen Awards; acknowledges its contribution as a sustainable construction supplier, having established its IndiNature Mill production facilities in the Scottish Borders; understands the importance of industrial hemp as a high-quality natural insulator, drawing upon its qualities as an excellent carbon sequestering break crop, neutral product, which generates zero waste; notes that industrial hemp is a crop with a long history in the UK and one that is being revived in the Scottish Borders, led by IndiNature developing the local supply chain for natural alternative insulation and other products; recognises the agency of IndiNature in achieving the first ever British Board of Agrément certifications for UK grown and made natural fibre insulation, and in bringing industrial scale change to the climate, the environment and people’s health, and thanks the co-founders, Scott Simpson and Sam Baumber, the new CEO, Alex McLeod, and all the team at IndiNature for leading the production of innovative bio-based materials and the circular bio-economy.

Supporters (26)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.