Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 17 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether any financial benefits of carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services should be directed to the parties that are carrying out the work and/or have their use rights, including grazing rights, restricted through such projects.
Scotland’s Natural Capital Market Framework sets out our principles for responsible investment in natural capital. These include the principles that investment should deliver public, private and community benefit, and that investment should support diverse and productive ownership. The Framework includes public sector actions to implement the principles, however, the apportionment of any financial benefits arising from investment in carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.